^17 (A)“You shall make a mercy seat^[a] of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

⁵ Above it were ^(A)the cherubim of glory overshadowing ^(B)the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

⁶ 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.

^16 (A)Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

²⁵ whom God ^(A)put forward as ^(B)a propitiation ^(C)by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in ^(D)his divine forbearance he had passed over ^(E)former sins.

¹¹ Then David gave Solomon his son the ^(A)plan of the ^(B)vestibule of the temple,^[a] and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the ^(C)mercy seat;

¹² And he shall take ^(A)a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the Lord, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and he shall bring it inside the veil ^13 (B)and put the incense on the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover ^(C)the mercy seat that is over the testimony, so that he does not die. ¹⁴ And ^(D)he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat on the east side, and in front of the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.

^15 (E)“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring its blood ^(F)inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, sprinkling it over the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat.

²⁰ He ^(A)took the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark and set the mercy seat above on the ark.

^2 (A)He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but ^(B)also for the sins of the whole world.

^34 (A)You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place.