Exodus 25:17
You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.
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In Context
16You shall put the covenant which I shall give you into the ark.
18You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.
Cross References
Exodus 26:34You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.
Exodus 37:6He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its width.
Leviticus 16:12He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil.
Romans 3:25whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
Hebrews 9:5and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 25:11-23
10 And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. 11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about. 12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it. 13 And thou shalt… Read the whole commentary →