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Bible Verses About Holy of Holies

14 verses · 25 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. You are to make two k'ruvim of gold. Make them of hammered work for the two ends of the ark-cover.

  2. Make one keruv for one end and one keruv for the other end; make the k'ruvim of one piece with the ark-cover at its two ends.

  3. The k'ruvim will have their wings spread out above, so that their wings cover the ark, and their faces are toward each other and toward the ark-cover.

  4. You are to put the ark-cover on top of the ark. "Inside the ark you will put the testimony that I am about to give you.

  5. There I will meet with you. I will speak with you from above the ark-cover, from between the two k'ruvim which are on the ark for the testimony, about all the orders I am giving you for the people of Isra'el.

  6. "You are to make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely woven linen. Make it with k'ruvim worked in, that have been crafted by a skilled artisan.

  7. Hang it with gold hooks on four acacia-wood posts overlaid with gold and standing in four silver sockets.

  8. Hang the curtain below the fasteners. Then bring the ark for the testimony inside the curtain; the curtain will be the divider for you between the Holy Place and the Especially Holy Place.

  9. Inside the sanctuary he made two k'ruvim of olive-wood, each seventeen-and-a-half feet high.

  10. Each of the two wings of one of the k'ruvim was eight-and-three quarters feet long, so that the distance from the end of one wing to the end of the other was seventeen-and-a-half feet.

  11. Likewise the [wingspread of the] other keruv was seventeen-and-a-half feet; both k'ruvim were identical in shape and size.

  12. The height of the one keruv was seventeen-and-a-half feet, likewise that of the other.

  13. He set the k'ruvim in the inner house; the wings of the k'ruvim were stretched out, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other keruv touched the other wall; their wings touched each other in the middle of the house.

  14. He overlaid the k'ruvim with gold.