The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.

Gideon son of Joash returned from the battle by the pass of Heres.

“You are to make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red and over that a covering of fine leather.

He made a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red and over that a covering of fine leather.

Then they must put over it a covering of fine leather and spread over that a cloth entirely of blue, and then they must insert its poles.

Their wings were spread out above them; each had two wings touching the wings of one of the other beings on either side and two wings covering their bodies.

Over the heads of the living beings was something like a platform, glittering awesomely like ice, stretched out over their heads.

Then the cherubim spread their wings with their wheels alongside them while the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.

Make a roof for the ark and finish it, leaving 18 inches from the top. Put a door in the side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper decks.

You are to put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and in the ark you are to put the testimony I am giving you.

They attached to it a blue cord, to attach it to the turban above, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

He took the testimony and put it in the ark, attached the poles to the ark, and then put the atonement lid on the ark.

They must carry the curtains for the tabernacle and the tent of meeting with its covering, the covering of fine leather that is over it, the curtains for the entrance of the tent of meeting,

The cherubs’ wings extended over the place where the ark sat; the cherubs overshadowed the ark and its poles.

The cherubs’ wings extended over the place where the ark sat; the cherubs overshadowed the ark and its poles.

Above the platform over their heads was something like a sapphire shaped like a throne. High above on the throne was a form that appeared to be a man.

As I watched, I saw tendons on them, then muscles appeared, and skin covered over them from above, but there was no breath in them.

When the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the Lord, the Ruler of the whole earth, touch the water of the Jordan, the water coming downstream toward you will stop flowing and pile up.”

the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing. It piled up far upstream at Adam (the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea). The people crossed the river opposite Jericho.