Exodus 25:17

⁵and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.

⁶He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its width.

¹²He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil. ¹³He shall put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the covenant, so that he will not die. ¹⁴He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.

¹⁵“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.

¹⁶Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

²⁰He took and put the covenant into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.

¹¹Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms, for the place of the mercy seat;

²⁵whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice^[+] through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

²And he is the atoning sacrifice^[+] for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

³⁴You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.