Exodus 25:8-10

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⁸Have them build a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.^(A) ⁹You shall construct it in accordance with everything that I am going to show you, as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture.

Ark of the Covenant

¹⁰“They shall make an ark of acacia wood two and a half ^[a]cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.

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Footnotes

Exodus 25:10 Ancient measurements like the cubit were intended to be practical in that they usually were equivalent to something that was handy and readily available. The cubit was the distance from the elbow to the outstretched fingers, and the hand width (v 25)—as its name implies—was the width of the four fingers.