Exodus 25:17
Modern Translations
New International Version
"Make an atonement cover of pure gold--two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

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

English Standard Version
“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.

Berean Study Bible
And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

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

NASB 1995
"You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

NASB 1977
“And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

Amplified Bible
“You shall make a mercy seat (cover) of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Make a mercy seat of pure gold, 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.

Contemporary English Version
Make the lid of the chest out of pure gold.

Good News Translation
"Make a lid of pure gold, 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Make a throne of mercy to cover the ark out of pure gold 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.

International Standard Version
"You are to make a Mercy Seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

NET Bible
"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.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
“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.

King James 2000 Bible
And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it.

New Heart English Bible
You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Three feet eight inches shall be its length, and two feet three inches its breadth.

World English Bible
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 breadth.

American King James Version
And you shall 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.

American Standard Version
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.

A Faithful Version
And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it.

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

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Also thou shalt make a Mercie seate of pure golde, two cubites and an halfe long, and a cubite and an halfe broade.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And thou shalt make a mercy seate of pure golde: two cubites and a halfe long, and a cubite and a halfe brode.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Thou shalt make a Mercyseate also of pure golde, two cubytes and a half longe, and a cubyte & a half brode.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And thou shalt make a merciseate of pure golde .ij. cubytes and an halfe longe and a cubete and an halfe brode.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And you have made a propitiatory covering of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;

Young's Literal Translation
'And thou hast made a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;

Smith's Literal Translation
And make a cover of pure gold: two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt make also a propitiatory of the purest gold: the length thereof shall be two cubits and a half, and the breadth a cubit and a half.

Catholic Public Domain Version
You shall also make a propitiatory of the finest gold. Its length shall hold two and one half cubits, and the width, one and one half cubits.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And make the Mercy Seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length and a cubit and a half its width.

Lamsa Bible
And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half broad.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And thou shalt make an ark-cover of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And 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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