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The Ark of the Covenant

37 Bezalel[a] made the ark[b] of acacia wood. It was forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high. He overlaid it with pure gold on the inside and the outside, and he made a gold border around it.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 37:1 Pronouns and verbs in this section are mostly singular referring to Bezalel. This does not mean he did all the work single-handedly.
  2. Exodus 37:1 An aron is a box or chest or even a coffin. The translation retains the traditional rendering ark.