Exodus 25:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁸ And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And you shall make two cherubim (winged angelic figures) of [solid] hammered gold on the two ends of the mercy seat.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Make two winged heavenly creatures of hammered gold, one for each end of the cover.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Likewise, you shall make two Cherubim of formed gold, on both sides of the oracle.

Exodus 25:18 Cross References

Genesis 3:24

He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

1 Chronicles 28:18

for the altar of incense made of refined gold, and its weight; also his plan for the golden chariot of the cherubim that spread their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 3:10

In the most holy place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold.

Exodus 25:17

Then 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.

Exodus 25:19

Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end; of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends.

Exodus 25:36

Their capitals and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it one piece of hammered work of pure gold.

Ezekiel 10:2

And he said to the man clothed in linen, “Go in among the whirling wheels underneath the cherubim; fill your hands with burning coals from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” And he went in before my eyes.

Ezekiel 10:20

These were the living creatures that I saw underneath the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.

Ezekiel 10:3

Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house, when the man went in; and a cloud filled the inner court.

Hebrews 9:5

above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

1 Samuel 4:4

So the people sent to Shiloh, and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, who is enthroned on the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.