Exodus 25:17-22
17 a“You shall make a mercy seat ▼▼Or cover
of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. 18And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of chammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat. 19Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. dOf one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends. 20 eThe cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. 21And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you. 22 fThere I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from gbetween the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel. Leviticus 16:2
2and the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to hcome at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For iI will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.1 Chronicles 28:11
11Then David gave Solomon his son the jplan of the kvestibule of the temple, ▼▼Hebrew lacks of the temple
and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the mmercy seat; Hebrews 9:5
5Above it were nthe cherubim of glory overshadowing othe mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.
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