The cherubim spread out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
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Exodus 37:9 in context
Exodus 37:6–12
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He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its width.
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one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.
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The cherubim spread out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
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He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, and its width was a cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half.
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He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it.
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He made a border of a hand’s width around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it.
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