“ Make its cover out of pure gold. The cover is the place where sin will be paid for. Make it three feet nine inches long and two feet three inches wide.

要用精金做施恩座，长二肘半，宽一肘半。

要用纯金做一个柜盖，长二肘半，宽一肘半。

要用纯金做一个柜盖，长二肘半，宽一肘半。

要用纯金造一个施恩座，长一点一米，宽六十六厘米。

你要用纯金做施恩座，长一百一十公分，宽六十六公分。

要用精金做施恩座，長二肘半，寬一肘半。

要用純金做一個櫃蓋，長二肘半，寬一肘半。

要用純金做一個櫃蓋，長二肘半，寬一肘半。

要用純金造一個施恩座，長一點一米，寬六十六釐米。

你要用純金做施恩座，長一百一十公分，寬六十六公分。

要用淨金作除罪蓋，長二肘，寬一肘半。

以精金作施恩座、長二肘有半、廣一肘有半、

以兼金作施恩之所、長二尺有半、廣一尺有半。

以精金作贖罪蓋、贖罪蓋或作施恩所下同長二尺半、廣一尺半、

“ Make an atonement cover of pure gold— two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

“ You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

“ Then make the Ark’s cover— the place of atonement— from pure gold. It must be 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.

Make a mercy seat of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide.

“ And you shall make an atoning cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

“ You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits shall be its length and a cubit and a half its width.

And thou shalt make a mercy- seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

Make a mercy seat of pure gold, 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.

And thou shalt make a mercy seat[ of] pure gold: two cubits and a half[ shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

“ You are to make an atonement lid of pure gold; its length is to be three feet nine inches, and its width is to be two feet three inches.

You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.

He made its cover out of pure gold. It was three feet nine inches long and two feet three inches wide. The cover is the place where sin is paid for.

The cherubim were above the ark. God showed his glory there. The cherubim spread their wings over the place where sin was paid for. But we can’t say everything about these things now.

So let us boldly approach God’s throne of grace. Then we will receive mercy. We will find grace to help us when we need it.

He must take a shallow cup full of burning coals from the altar in my sight. He must get two handfuls of incense completely ground up. The incense must smell sweet. He must take the cup and the incense behind the curtain.He must put the incense on the fire in my sight. The smoke from the incense will hide the cover of the ark where the tablets of the covenant law are kept. The cover is the place where sin is paid for. Aaron must burn the incense so that he will not die.He must dip his finger in the bull’s blood. He must sprinkle it on the front of the cover of the ark. He must sprinkle some in front of the cover. He must do it seven times.“ Then Aaron must kill the goat for the sin offering for the people. He must take its blood behind the curtain. There he must do the same thing with it as he did with the bull’s blood. He must sprinkle it on the cover of the ark. He must also sprinkle some in front of it.

God gave Christ as a sacrifice to pay for sins through the spilling of his blood. So God forgives the sins of those who have faith. God did all this to prove that he does what is right. He is a God of mercy. So he did not punish for their sins the people who lived before Jesus lived.

He got the tablets of the covenant law. He placed them in the ark. He put the poles through its rings. And he put the cover on it. The cover was the place where sin is paid for.

He gave his life to pay for our sins. But he not only paid for our sins. He also paid for the sins of the whole world.

Put the cover on the ark of the covenant law in the Most Holy Room. The cover will be the place where sin is paid for.

Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the porch of the temple. He gave him the plans for its buildings and its storerooms. He gave him the plans for its upper parts and its inside rooms. He gave him the plans for the place where sin is paid for and forgiven.