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and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark.
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And he made a mercy seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
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And he made two cherubim of hammered gold; on the two ends of the mercy seat he made them,
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one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end; of one piece with the mercy seat he made the cherubim on its two ends.
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The cherubim spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat were the faces of the cherubim.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.