Revised Webster's Bible
Exodus 37:6
6And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and one cubit and a half the breadth of it.
Exodus 37:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)He made the atonement cover of pure gold—two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And he made a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He also made the mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits was its length and a cubit and a half its width.
Context of Exodus 37:6
4And he made staffs of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold. 5And he put the staffs into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark. And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and one cubit and a half the breadth of it. 7And he made two cherubim of gold, beaten out of one piece he made them, on the two ends of the mercy seat; 8One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubim on its two ends.
Read all of Exodus 37Exodus 37:6 word by word
וַיַּ֥עַשׂ כַּפֹּ֖רֶת זָהָ֣ב טָה֑וֹר אַמָּתַ֤יִם וָחֵ֙צִי֙ אָרְכָּ֔הּ וְאַמָּ֥ה וָחֵ֖צִי רָחְבָּֽהּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Exodus 37:6
- Exodus 25:17And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
- Leviticus 16:12And 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 veil:
- 1 Chronicles 28:11Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses of it, and of its treasuries, and of its upper chambers, and of its inner parlours and of the place of the mercy seat,
- Romans 3:25Whom 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 4:4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
- Hebrews 9:5And over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
- 1 John 2:2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Commentaries on Exodus 37:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6He made the mercy-seat - See this described Exodus 25:17; (note).Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-29It says that Bezalel made the ark of the covenant and all the furnishings, as well as the courtyard and its furnishings (37:1, 10, 17, 25; 38:1, 8, 9, 18). But this probably means he was in charge and guided the other craftsmen and seamstresses.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 6-106-10. made the mercy seat of pure gold--To construct a figure, whether the body of a beast or a man, with two extended wings, measuring from two to three feet from tip to tip, with the hammer, out of a solid piece of gold, was what few, if any, artisans of the present day could accomplish.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 37
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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