6And 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.
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And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
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: …
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. …
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)I. It may be thought strange that Moses, when he had recorded so fully the instructions given him upon the mount for the making of all these things, should here record as particularly the making of them, when it might have sufficed only to have said, in a few words, that each of these things was made exactly according to the directions before recited. We are sure that Moses, when he wrote by divin…
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