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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 breadth.
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More Than Just a Lid
Scholars emphasize that the Hebrew term for "mercy seat" (kapporeth) means far more than a simple "lid." While it physically covered the ark, its name is rooted in the concept of "atonement" or "expiation." As John Calvin explains, it symbolically covered the law, which accuses humanity of sin, thus allowing God to show mercy and be favorable to His people.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A mercy seat of pure gold – (Exodus 25:18–20). In external form, the mercy seat was a plate of gold with the cherubim standing o…
19th Century
Anglican
THE MERCY SEAT.
A mercy seat. —Those critics to whom the idea of expiation is unsatisfactory, as Knobel and…
Baptist
It fitted exactly on the top of the ark, and so completely covered whatever was put within. It was made of pure gold. This, perhaps, was the most i…
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16th Century
Protestant
And you shall make a mercy-seat. The primary root of the verb כפר, caphar, from which this noun is derived,128 is used…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold Or "covering" F14 ; so Jarchi and Aben Ezra; for so the word properly …
The ark was a chest, overlaid with gold, in which the two tables of the law were to be kept. These tables are called the testimony; God in them tes…
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