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Making the Ark

37 (A)Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Two cubits[a] and a half was its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a moulding of gold round it. And he cast for it four rings of gold for its (B)four feet, two rings on its one side and two rings on its other side.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 37:1 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimetres

The Ark(A)

37 Bezalel(B) made the ark(C) of acacia wood—two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.[a] He overlaid it with pure gold,(D) both inside and out, and made a gold molding around it. He cast four gold rings for it and fastened them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 37:1 That is, about 3 3/4 feet long and 2 1/4 feet wide and high or about 1.1 meters long and 68 centimeters wide and high; similarly in verse 6

So I made an ark (A)of acacia wood, and (B)cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

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So I made the ark out of acacia wood(A) and chiseled(B) out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

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having the golden (A)altar of incense and (B)the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was (C)a golden urn holding the manna, and (D)Aaron's staff that budded, and (E)the tablets of the covenant.

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which had the golden altar of incense(A) and the gold-covered ark of the covenant.(B) This ark contained the gold jar of manna,(C) Aaron’s staff that had budded,(D) and the stone tablets of the covenant.(E)

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