⁶ And he made the cover all of gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

⁵ And over it were the winged ones of glory with their wings covering the mercy-seat; about which it is not possible now to say anything in detail.

¹⁷ And you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

¹⁸ And at the two ends of the cover you are to make two winged ones of hammered gold,

¹⁹ One at one end and one at the other; the winged ones are to be part of the cover.

²⁰ And their wings are to be outstretched over the cover, and the winged ones are to be opposite one another, facing the cover.

²¹ And put the cover over the ark, and in the ark the record which I will give you.

²² And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel.

¹² And he is to take a vessel full of burning coal from the altar before the Lord and in his hand some sweet perfume crushed small, and take it inside the veil;

¹³ And let him put the perfume on the fire before the Lord so that the ark may be covered with a cloud of the smoke of the perfume, in order that death may not overtake him.

¹⁴ And let him take some of the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it from his finger on the cover of the ark on the east side, and before it, seven times.

¹⁵ Then let him put to death the goat of the sin-offering for the people, and take its blood inside the veil and do with it as he did with the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it on and before the cover of the ark.

¹¹ Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the doorway of the house of God and of its houses and its store-houses, and the higher rooms and the inner rooms and the place for the mercy-seat;

²⁵ Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;

⁴ But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

¹⁴ Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.

² He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.