“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Exodus 25 contains 40 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.