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What does Exodus 25:17 mean?

"You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width."

— Exodus 25:17 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

14

You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.

15

The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.

16

You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.

17

You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.

18

You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.

19

Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.

20

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.

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