Lev 16:2 | HCSB | STEP | The Lord said to Moses : “Tell your brother Aaron that he may not come whenever he wants into the holy place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark or else he will die , because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat .

Leviticus 16:2

2 The Lord said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron that he may not come whenever he wants into the holy place ^a behind the veil ^b in front of the ^{▼▼mercy seat: Or place of atonement; the gold lid on the ark of the covenant, first used in the tabernacle and later in the temple}mercy seat ^d on the ark or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud ^e above the mercy seat. ^f