Exodus 25:17

Exodus 25:18 →

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.

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Interpretation

The ark was a chest, overlaid with gold, in which the two tables of the law were to be kept. These tables are called the testimony; God in them testified his will.

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This thought runs through Exodus 25:15-19.

Exodus 25:15 Exodus 25:16 Exodus 25:17 Exodus 25:18 Exodus 25:19

Glossary

Mercy-seat Object: (Heb. kapporeth, a “covering;” LXX. and N. T., hilasterion; Vulg., propitiatorium), the covering or lid of the ark of the covenant (q. v. ).