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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 gold. He made them of hammered work on the two ends of the mercy seat,
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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.
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