Exodus 40:18-20

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁸ Moses set up the tabernacle; he laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars; ¹⁹ and he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent over it; as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²⁰ He took the covenant^[a] and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark, and set the mercy seat^[b] above the ark;