“He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, 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 37 contains 29 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.