New American Standard Bible 2020

Exodus 25:16-22

16You shall 1put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.

17“And you shall 2make 3an atoning cover of pure gold, 4two and a half cubits 5long and one and a half cubits 6wide. 18You shall make two cherubim of gold; make them of hammered work 7at the two ends of the atoning cover. 19Make one cherub 8at one end and one cherub 9at the other end; you shall make the cherubim of one piece 10with the atoning cover at its two ends. 20And 11the cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the atoning cover with their wings and 12facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the atoning cover. 21Then 13you shall put the atoning cover 14on top of the ark, and 15in the ark you shall put the testimony which I will give to you. 22 16There I will meet with you; and from above the atoning cover, from 17between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak to you about 18every commandment that I will give you for the sons of Israel.

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Notes

1. Exodus 25:16 Ex 40:20; Deut 10:2; 31:26; 1 Kin 8:9; Heb 9:4 ↩
2. Exodus 25:17 Ex 37:6 ↩
3. Exodus 25:17 Also called a mercy seat, and so throughout the ch; i.e., where blood was sprinkled on the Day of Atonement ↩
4. Exodus 25:17 About 3.7 ft. long and 2.2 ft. wide or 1.1 m and 68 cm ↩
5. Exodus 25:17 Lit its length ↩
6. Exodus 25:17 Lit its width ↩
7. Exodus 25:18 Lit from ↩
8. Exodus 25:19 Lit from ↩
9. Exodus 25:19 Lit from ↩
10. Exodus 25:19 Lit from ↩
11. Exodus 25:20 1 Kin 8:7; 1 Chr 28:18; Heb 9:5 ↩
12. Exodus 25:20 Lit their faces to ↩
13. Exodus 25:21 Ex 26:34; 40:20 ↩
14. Exodus 25:21 Lit above, upon ↩
15. Exodus 25:21 Ex 25:16 ↩
16. Exodus 25:22 Ex 29:42, 43; 30:6, 36; Lev 16:2; Num 17:4 ↩
17. Exodus 25:22 Num 7:89; 1 Sam 4:4; 2 Sam 6:2; 2 Kin 19:15; Ps 80:1; Is 37:16 ↩
18. Exodus 25:22 Lit all that I will command ↩

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