Exodus 37:6

He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its width.

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In The King James Version

And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

In Context

5He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.

7He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work, at the two ends of the mercy seat:

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Cross References

Exodus 25:17You 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.

1 Chronicles 28:11Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms, for the place of the mercy seat;

Galatians 4:4But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

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 37:2-10

The Tabernacle and Its Furniture. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it: 2 And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about. 3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it. 4 And he made staves of shittim wood,… Read the whole commentary →

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