Exodus 25:17 “And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cub…”

Exodus 25:17

And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

And thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

Geneva Bible 1599

Also thou shalt make a Mercie seate of pure golde, two cubites and an halfe long, and a cubite and an halfe broade.

Darby Translation

And thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

Young's Literal Translation

'And thou hast made a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;

Bible in Basic English

And you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

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Cross references

“mercy seat”

Exodus 37:6 Hebrews 9:5 Romans 3:25 Exodus 40:20 Leviticus 16:12–15 1 Chronicles 28:11

Exodus 37:6 · BSB

He constructed a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Hebrews 9:5 · BSB

Above the ark were the cherubim of glory, overshadowing the mercy seat. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.

Romans 3:25 · BSB

God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

Exodus 40:20 · BSB

Moses took the Testimony and placed it in the ark, attaching the poles to the ark; and he set the mercy seat atop the ark.

Leviticus 16:12–15 · BSB

Then he must take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil.

1 Chronicles 28:11 · BSB

Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, storehouses, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16And place inside the ark the Testimony, which I will give you.

18Make two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends of the mercy seat,

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