Two gold plated wooden poles are placed in the 4 rings, never to be removed. Moshe's told twice to place the 2 tablets of testimony in the ark, both before and after the command to place the cover on it. Carrying poles are inserted into its gold rings. Its tongs and snuff-dishes are made from the same block. The table's on the north side of the tabernacle, the menorah, opposite it, on the south-a hint of mutual influence and tension between external power and riches, and internal intellectual and spiritual development.
Crossbars pass thru rings, connecting the boards.
2 sets of 5 curtains each, of 6 ply woven material, with a cherubim motif, are joined by gold clasps and loops. On top of these are red ram skins and tachash skins. The parochos, dividing the main tabernacle from the holy of holies, containing only the ark, is a curtain with a cherubim motif, hanging from four pillars. An embroidered entrance curtain, musach, hangs from 5 pillars with copper sockets. The courtyard surrounding the tabernacle measures 50 x 100, about the size of a large villa.