Éxodo 25:12

12 Además fundirás para ella cuatro argollas de oro, y las pondrás en sus cuatro esquinas; dos argollas a un lado de ella y dos argollas al otro lado.

Éxodo 25:12 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 25:12

And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it
For which a mould was to be made, and the gold being melted was poured into it, and so the rings were fashioned:

and put them in the corners thereof;
or, "in its feet", as Aben Ezra, though Jarchi says it had no feet; but as the word used so signifies always, it is more probable it had feet; and the rather, that it might not stand upon the ground, but on feet, as chests and coffers usually do:

and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the
other side of it;
Jarchi says, at the upper corners, near the mercy seat were they placed, two on one side and two on the other, at the breadth of the ark; but it is more likely they were fixed in the lower part of it, as Ramban, at the feet of it; and in the length of the ark, as Josephus writes ^F13.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Antiqu. l. 3. c. 6. sect. 5

Éxodo 25:12 In-Context

10 Harán también un arca de madera de acacia; su longitud será de dos codos y medio, su anchura de un codo y medio, y su altura de un codo y medio.

11 Y la revestirás de oro puro; por dentro y por fuera la revestirás, y harás una moldura de oro alrededor de ella.

12 Además fundirás para ella cuatro argollas de oro, y las pondrás en sus cuatro esquinas; dos argollas a un lado de ella y dos argollas al otro lado.

13 También harás varas de madera de acacia y las revestirás de oro.

14 Y meterás las varas por las argollas a los lados del arca, para llevar el arca con ellas.