“And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.”
Then he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. The carrying poles for the ark — acacia overlaid with gold — are constructed exactly as Exodus 25:13 specified. The material consistency: the same acacia and gold as the ark itself. The poles that carry the ark share the ark's material, communicating that the means of transport participates in the holiness of what is transported. The gold-overlaid poles through which the priests carry the ark without touching it are the mediating instruments between the most holy object and the servants who move it.
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