Exodus 37:6

And he made the mercy seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a half [was] the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

And he made {H6213} the mercy seat {H3727} of pure {H2889} gold {H2091}: two cubits {H520} and a half {H2677} was the length {H753} thereof, and one cubit {H520} and a half {H2677} the breadth {H7341} thereof.

He made a cover for the ark of pure gold, three-and-three-quarters feet long and two-and-a-quarter feet wide.

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

And he made a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

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Cross-References

  • Hebrews 9:5 (3 votes)

    And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

  • 1 John 2:2 (2 votes)

    And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the whole world.

  • Romans 3:25 (2 votes)

    Whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

  • Galatians 4:4 (2 votes)

    But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

  • Leviticus 16:12 (2 votes)

    And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring [it] within the vail:

  • Leviticus 16:15 (2 votes)

    ¶ Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that [is] for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:

  • 1 Chronicles 28:11 (2 votes)

    ¶ Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,