^{6 Ref} And he maketh a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;

^{7 Ref} and he maketh two cherubs of gold, of beaten work he hath made them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat;

⁸ one cherub at the end on this `side', and one cherub at the end on that, out of the mercy-seat he hath made the cherubs, at its two ends;

^{9 Ref} and the cherubs are spreading out wings on high, covering over the mercy-seat with their wings, and their faces `are' one towards another; towards the mercy-seat have the faces of the cherubs been.