Exodus 25:17
And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
KJV
Facies et propitiatorium de auro mundissimo : duos cubitos et dimidium tenebit longitudo ejus, et cubitum ac semissem latitudo.
Vulgate
καὶ ποιήσεις δύο χερουβεὶμ χρυσοτορευτά, καὶ ἐπιθήσεις αὐτὰ ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων τῶν κλιτῶν τοῦ ἱλαστηρίου·
LXX
And thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
ASV
וְ/עָשִׂ֥יתָ כַפֹּ֖רֶת זָהָ֣ב טָה֑וֹר אַמָּתַ֤יִם וָ/חֵ֨צִי֙ אָרְכָּ֔/הּ וְ/אַמָּ֥ה וָ/חֵ֖צִי רָחְבָּֽ/הּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אַמָּ֔ה
'mh
noun · 249×
וֹ
v
noun · 95×
זָהָ֖ב
zhb
noun · 388×
חֲצִ֣י
chtsy
noun · 122×
טָה֑וֹר
thvr
adjective · 94×
יַּ֥עַשׂ
y'sh
verb · 2621×
כַּפֹּֽרֶת
kprt
noun · 27×
רֹ֖חַב
rchb
noun · 101×
Intertextual echoes
Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.
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Rom 3:25 · allusion"Whom 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;"Exodus: the mercy seat (hilasterion) — Christ as propitiation
Typology
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2130Nevertheless, already in the Old Testament, God ordained or permitted the making of images that pointed symbolically toward salvation by the incarnate Word: so it was with the bronze serpent, the ark of the covenant, and the cherubim.69
Folly of the arguments derived by the heretics from numbers, letters, and syllables. 1. This very thing, too, still further demonstrates their opinion false, and their fictitious system untenable, that they endeavour to bring forward proofs of it, sometimes through means of numbers and the syllables of names, sometimes also through the letter of syllables, and yet again through…
Cross-references
- 1Chr 28:11 — Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the
- 1Chr 28:11 — Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the
- Exod 37:6 — 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.
- Exod 40:20 — And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
- Ezek 28:14 — Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
- Heb 4:16 — Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
- Heb 4:16 — Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
- Heb 9:5 — And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
- Heb 9:5 — And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
- Lev 16:2 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will
- Lev 16:12 — And 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 vail:
- Rom 3:25 — Whom 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;
- Rom 3:25 — Whom 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;