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btw, scripture says that the symbolism of the ark is that God will be with them...Exodus 25 21-22 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
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The quote feature in your post went awry, but in response to the comment above-- yes, this is true however the way you might think of it has this conceptual duality that I harp on about...

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God....

The testimony-- which came to Moses and was written down on two stone tablets was the Word of God-- which is spirit, not physical.  The tablets of stone were physical of course, but just representative of the Word (testimony) and therein the presence of God- with - us  --   This is the same way that the Word came to us not on tablets of stone, but in the flesh-- in the body of Jesus -- the testimony once again delivered to men via the Spirit of God.
[/quote]if you do NOT see the difference between an image and a text, i don't know how to help you.  The question is not about whether or not they were given instructions nor if the cherubim were real figures, or if they had another meaning, or any number of other things I could glean from your texts that you want to change the topic to...the question is how they knew what cherubim looked like given that God did not give detail descriptions of the cherubim.