^17 (A)“You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits shall be its length and a cubit and a half its width.

²⁰ And ^(A)the cherubim shall stretch out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and they shall face one another; the faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.

² and the Lord said to Moses: “Tell Aaron your brother ^(A)not to come at just any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark, lest he die; for ^(B)I will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.

⁷ For the cherubim spread their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.