Exodus 25:17-22
25:17 “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.
25:18 You are to make two cherubim of gold; you are to make them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid.
25:19 Make one cherub on one end and one cherub on the other end; from the atonement lid you are to make the cherubim on the two ends.
25:20 The cherubim are to be spreading their wings upward, overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings, and the cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the atonement lid.
25:21 You are to put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and in the ark you are to put the testimony I am giving you.
25:22 I will meet with you there, and from above the atonement lid, from between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will command you for the Israelites.
Leviticus 16:12-15
16:12 and take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the
Lord and a full double handful of finely ground fragrant incense,
and bring them inside the veil-canopy.
16:13 He must then put the incense on the fire before the
Lord, and the cloud of incense will cover the atonement plate which is above the ark of the testimony,
so that he will not die.
16:14 Then he is to take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the eastern face of the atonement plate,
and in front of the atonement plate he is to sprinkle some of the blood seven times with his finger.
16:15 “He must then slaughter the sin offering goat which is for the people. He is to bring its blood inside the veil-canopy, and he is to do with its blood just as he did to the blood of the bull: He is to sprinkle it on the atonement plate and in front of the atonement plate.
Leviticus 16:1
The Day of Atonement
16:1 The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron’s two sons when they approached the presence of the Lord and died,
Leviticus 1:11
1:11 and must slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the
Lord, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, will splash its blood against the altar’s sides.
Romans 3:25
3:25 God publicly displayed
him
at his death
as the mercy seat
accessible through faith.
This was to demonstrate
his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.
Galatians 4:4
4:4 But when the appropriate time
had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
Titus 2:14
2:14 He
gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his,
who are eager to do good.
Hebrews 9:5
9:5 And above the ark
were the cherubim
of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Now is not the time to speak of these things in detail.
Hebrews 9:1
The Arrangement and Ritual of the Earthly Sanctuary
9:1 Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.
Hebrews 2:2
2:2 For if the message spoken through angels
proved to be so firm that every violation
or disobedience received its just penalty,