“And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.”
He made the atonement cover of pure gold — two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. The mercy seat — the atonement cover — is constructed exactly as Exodus 25:17 specified: pure gold, 2.5 cubits by 1.5 cubits. The kapporeth that Paul calls a hilasterion in Romans 3:25 is the piece of gold furniture that Bezalel constructs. The atonement cover that will receive the blood of the Day of Atonement year after year is the physical anticipation of the one final atonement that makes the annual covering permanent.
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