Exodus 25:15
The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.
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Context
13 And you shall make staves shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
14 And you shall put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.
16 And you shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.
17 And you shall make a mercy seat pure gold: two cubits and a half the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.