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Exodus 26:34

You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.

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Parallel Translations

  • WEB World English Bible

    You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.

  • KJV King James Version

    And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And thou shalt put the ark-cover upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.

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Cross-references (3)

Passages linked to Exodus 26:34 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Exodus 25:21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I will give you.
  • Exodus 40:20 He took and put the covenant into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
  • Hebrews 9:5 and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.

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Explain this verse (3 sources)

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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars…

And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood,.... One at each corner of the entrance into the tabernacle, and the other three at a proper distance from each other, so as to make four ways for the priests to enter in at; as there might very well be, since there was a breadth of ten cubits, or five yards or more:

and overlay them with gold; with plates of gold, for a gild would soon wear off by continual use in passing and repassing. This is to be understood not of the whole pillars, but of the chapiters, heads, tops, or knobs of them, and of their fillets or girdles; in some parts of them the wood appearing, as is plain from Exo 36:38,

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and their hooks shall be of gold; on which the hanging, covering, or vail was hung:

and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them; for the pillars to stand upon them, and were of a meaner metal than those on which the pillars for the vail before mentioned; that being the entrance into the holy of holies, where the divine Majesty dwelt, this into the holy place where the priests did their service.

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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (34, 35) The sole furniture of the most holy…
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