Holy Scripture

Exodus 25:17

A church father on this verse
“For if you are a Cherub contemplating the essential attributes of God, and you wonder that the divine being is at once the first and the last, eternal and most present, most simple and greatest, that is, uncircumscribed, wholly everywhere and nowhere comprehended, most actual and never moved, most perfect and having n…”
Bonaventure, 13th c. — Itinerarium Mentis in Deum, Chapter 6

Source: Septuagint

Original

17And thou shalt make a propitiatory, a lid of pure gold; the length of two cubits and a half, and the breadth of a cubit and a half.

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In context

15The staffs shall remain fixed in the rings of the ark.

16And thou shalt put into the ark the testimonies which I shall give thee.

— Exodus 25:17 —

18And thou shalt make two cherubs graven in gold, and thou shalt put them on both sides of the propitiatory.

19They shall be made, one cherub on this side, and another cherub on the other side of the propitiatory; and thou shalt make the two cherubs on the two sides.

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