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You are to make it exactly according to the design for the Dwelling and the designs for all of its furniture which I will show you.

The Ark of the Covenant

10 They shall make an ark[a] of acacia wood. It is to be forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.[b] 11 Overlay it with pure gold. Overlay it on the inside and the outside, and make a gold border around it.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 25:10 An aron is a box or chest or even a coffin. The translation retains the traditional rendering ark. It is not the same Hebrew word that refers to Noah’s ark, which also was a box.
  2. Exodus 25:10 Measurements are based on a cubit of 18 inches.