Objects
mercy-seat
A cover of pure gold for the ark, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide, with two winged creatures modelled at its ends. It is put on the ark of the Testimony in the Holy of Holies. The incense altar stands in front of the curtain before the mercy-seat, where Yahweh meets Moses. Bezalel and Oholiab are commissioned to make the mercy-seat.
Category
Objects
First mention
Exodus 25:17
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Scripture references
- Exodus 25:17
'You will also make a mercy-seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide,
- Exodus 25:22
There I shall come to meet you; from above the mercy-seat, from between the two winged creatures which are on the ark of the Testimony, I shall give you all my orders for the Israelites.
- Exodus 26:34
You will put the mercy-seat on the ark of the Testimony in the Holy of Holies.
- Exodus 30:6
You will put it in front of the curtain by the ark of Testimony, in front of the mercy-seat which is on the Testimony, where I shall meet you.
- Exodus 31:7
the Tent of Meeting; the ark of the Testimony; the mercy-seat above it; and all the furniture of the tent;
- Exodus 35:12
the ark, its shafts and all its accessories, the mercy-seat and the screening curtain;