You shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
The first thing which is here ordered to be made is the ark with its appurtenances, the furniture of the most holy place, and the special token of God's presence, for which the tabernacle was erected to be the receptacle. I.
Commenting on Exodus 25:10-22
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...
rings--staples for the poles, with which it was to be carried from place to place.