Exodus 25:20 “And the cherubim are to have wings that spread upward, overshadowing t…”

Exodus 25:20

And the cherubim are to have wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the mercy seat.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.

World English Bible

The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.

American Standard Version

And the cherubim shall spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the Cherubims shall stretche their winges on hie, couering the Mercie seate with their winges, and their faces one to another: to the Mercie seate warde shall the faces of the Cherubims be.

Darby Translation

And the cherubim shall stretch out [their] wings over it, covering over with their wings the mercy-seat, and their faces opposite to one another: toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be [turned].

Young's Literal Translation

'And the cherubs have been spreading out wings on high, covering the mercy-seat over with their wings, and their faces [are] one towards another — towards the mercy-seat are the faces of the cherubs.

Bible in Basic English

And their wings are to be outstretched over the cover, and the winged ones are to be opposite one another, facing the cover.

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Cross references

“cherubims shall”

1 Kings 8:7 1 Chronicles 28:18 Exodus 25:18 2 Chronicles 3:10

1 Kings 8:7 · BSB

For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.

1 Chronicles 28:18 · BSB

the weight of the refined gold for the altar of incense; and the plans for the chariot of the gold cherubim that spread their wings and overshadowed the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

Exodus 25:18 · BSB

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

2 Chronicles 3:10 · BSB

In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and he overlaid them with gold.

“covering”

Ezekiel 28:14

Ezekiel 28:14 · BSB

You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for I had ordained you. You were on the holy mountain of God; you walked among the fiery stones.

“toward”

Genesis 28:12 Isaiah 6:1–5 Ezekiel 1:20 Matthew 24:31 John 1:51 1 Corinthians 4:9

Genesis 28:12 · BSB

And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.

Isaiah 6:1–5 · BSB

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.

Ezekiel 1:20 · BSB

Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise alongside them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

Matthew 24:31 · BSB

And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

John 1:51 · BSB

Then He declared, “Truly, truly, I tell you, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

1 Corinthians 4:9 · BSB

For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

Also

Hebrews 9:5

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.

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

In context

19one cherub on one end and one on the other, all made from one piece of gold.

21Set the mercy seat atop the ark and put the Testimony that I will give you into the ark.

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