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Exodus 37:6

And he made the cover all of gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gold;   Mercy-Seat;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ark of the Covenant;   Exodus;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ark;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Mercy Seat;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ark of the Covenant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Leviticus;   Tabernacle;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Crown;   Mercy Seat;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Handicraft;   Mercy-seat;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mercy-Seat;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
King James Version
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.
Lexham English Bible
And he made an atonement cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width.
New Century Version
Then he made a lid of pure gold that was forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide.
New English Translation
He made an atonement lid of pure gold; its length was three feet nine inches, and its width was two feet three inches.
Amplified Bible
Bezalel made the mercy seat of pure gold; it was two and a half cubits long, and one and a half cubits wide.
New American Standard Bible
He also made an atoning cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he made the Merciseate of pure golde: two cubites and an halfe was the length thereof, and one cubite and an halfe the breadth thereof.
Legacy Standard Bible
He made a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
Contemporary English Version
The entire lid of the chest, which was also covered with pure gold, was the place of mercy.
Complete Jewish Bible
He made a cover for the ark of pure gold, three-and-three-quarters feet long and two-and-a-quarter feet wide.
Darby Translation
—And he made a mercy-seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then he made the mercy-cover from pure gold. It was 2 1/2 cubits long and 1 1/2 cubits wide.
English Standard Version
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.
George Lamsa Translation
And he made the mercy seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half was its length and one cubit and a half its breadth.
Good News Translation
He made a lid of pure gold, 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.
Christian Standard Bible®
He made a mercy seat of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide.
Literal Translation
And he made a mercyseat of pure gold; two cubits and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he made ye Mercyseate of pure golde two cubytes and a half longe, and a cubite and a half brode,
American Standard Version
And he made a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he made the mercy seate of pure golde: two cubites and a halfe was the length thereof, and one cubite and a halfe the breadth.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he made an ark-cover of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
King James Version (1611)
And he made the Mercie seat of pure gold: two cubites and an halfe was the length thereof, and one cubite and an halfe the breadth thereof.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and their posts five, and the rings; and they gilded their chapiters and their clasps with gold, and they had five sockets of brass.
English Revised Version
And he made a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
Berean Standard Bible
He constructed a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He made also a propiciatorie, that is, Goddis answeryng place, of pureste gold, of twei cubitis and an half in lengthe, and of o cubit and an half in breede.
Young's Literal Translation
And he maketh a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;
Update Bible Version
And he made a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half [was] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the width thereof.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
World English Bible
He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
New King James Version
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.
New Living Translation
Then he made the Ark's cover—the place of atonement—from pure gold. It was 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.
New Life Bible
He made a mercy-seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long, and one and a half cubits wide.
New Revised Standard
He made a mercy seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its width.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he made a propitiatory of pure gold, - two cubits and a half, the length thereof, and, a cubit and a half, the breadth thereof:
Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also the propitiatory, that is, the oracle, of the purest gold, two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth.
Revised Standard Version
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.
THE MESSAGE
Next he made a lid of pure gold for the Chest, an Atonement-Cover, three and three-quarters feet long and two and a quarter feet wide.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He made a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

Contextual Overview

1 And Bezalel made the ark of hard wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high; 2 Plating it inside and out with the best gold, and putting an edge of gold all round it. 3 And he made four gold rings for its four angles, two on one side and two on the other, 4 And rods of the same wood plated with gold. 5 These rods he put in the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it. 6 And he made the cover all of gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. 7 And he made two winged ones, hammered out of one bit of gold, for the two ends of the cover; 8 Placing one at one end and one at the other; the winged ones were part of the cover. 9 And their wings were stretched out over the cover; the faces of the winged ones were opposite one another and facing the cover.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 25:17-22, Leviticus 16:12-15, 1 Chronicles 28:11, Romans 3:25, Galatians 4:4, Titus 2:14, Hebrews 9:5, 1 John 2:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 40:20 - mercy 2 Chronicles 5:7 - to the oracle

Cross-References

Genesis 44:18
Then Judah came near him, and said, Let your servant say a word in my lord's ears, and let not your wrath be burning against your servant: for you are in the place of Pharaoh to us.
Judges 9:7
Now Jotham, on hearing of it, went to the top of Mount Gerizim, and crying out with a loud voice said to them, Give ear to me, you townsmen of Shechem, so that God may give ear to you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 37:6. He made the mercy-seat — See this described Exodus 25:17. Exodus 25:17; Exodus 25:17.


 
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