He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
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He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
And he made an atonement lid of pure gold. Its length two cubits and a half, and its width a cubit and a half.
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He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
He constructed a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
He constructed a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
And he made a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half `was' the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
And he made a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
And he made the Merciseate of pure golde: two cubites and an halfe was the length thereof, and one cubite and an halfe the breadth thereof.
He made also the propitiatory, that is, the oracle, of the purest gold, two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth.
And he maketh a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;
And he makes a propitiatory covering of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;
He made an atonement lid of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and its width was one and a half cubits.
And he made an atonement lid of pure gold. Its length two cubits and a half, and its width a cubit and a half.
-- And he made a mercy-seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its width.
And he made the mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and one cubit and a half the breadth of it.
He made the atonement cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long by a cubit and a half wide.
And he made the cover all of gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
And he made an ark-cover of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
כַּפֹּ֖רֶת mercy seat H3727 occurs in 22 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 24 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיַּ֥עַשׂ כַּפֹּ֖רֶת זָהָ֣ב טָה֑וֹר אַמָּתַ֤יִם וָחֵ֨צִי֙ אָרְכָּ֔הּ וְאַמָּ֥ה וָחֵ֖צִי רָחְבָּֽהּ
He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ὁ στῦλος αὐτός πέντε καί ὁ κρίκος καί ὁ κεφαλίς αὐτός καί ὁ ψαλίς αὐτός καταχρυσόω χρυσίον καί ὁ βάσις αὐτός πέντε χαλκοῦς
and their posts five, and the rings; and they gilded their capitals and their clasps with gold, and they had five sockets of brass.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וַעֲבַד כַּפֻּרְתָּא דְהַב דְכֵי תַּרְתֵּין אַמִין וּפַלְגָא אֻרְכַּהּ וְאַמְתָא וּפַלְגָא פְתָיַהּ:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וְעָבַד כַּפּוּרְתָּא דִדְהַב דְּכֵי תַּרְתֵּין אַמִּין וּפַלְגָא אוּרְכָּא וְאַמְתָא וּפַלְגָא פּוּתְיָא בְּרַם סוּמְכָא הֲוַת פּוּשְׁכָא
And he made the MERCY SEAT of pure gold; two cubits and a half the length, and a cubit and half its breadth; but its thickness was a span.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 10 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kappôreth (“mercy seat”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 37:6 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.