20And 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:
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As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
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. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-33)When the tabernacle and the furniture of it were prepared, they did not put off the rearing of it till they came to Canaan, though they now hoped to be there very shortly; but, in obedience to the will of God, they set it up in the midst of their camp, while they were in the wilderness. Those that are unsettled in the world must not think that this will excuse them in their continued irreligion; a…
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