Quotes About Mercy

the ark with its poles and mercy seat, and the veil to shield it;

He constructed a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

He made two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends of the mercy seat,

And the cherubim had wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim faced each other, looking toward the mercy seat.

the ark of the Testimony with its poles and the mercy seat;

Moses took the Testimony and placed it in the ark, attaching the poles to the ark; and he set the mercy seat atop the ark.

And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.

He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the cloud of incense will cover the mercy seat above the Testimony, so that he will not die.

And he is to take some of the bullís blood and sprinkle it with his finger on the east side of the mercy seat; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the mercy seat.

Aaron shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and bring its blood behind the veil, and with its blood he must do as he did with the bullís blood: He is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it.

If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his brothers may redeem him:

When Moses entered the Tent of Meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the mercy seat on the ark of the Testimony. Thus the LORD spoke to him.

and said to Moses, “My lord, please do not hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed.

If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,

ëThe LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.í

Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”

“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.

Then the whole congregation of Israel and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally.

And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD on behalf of the person who erred by sinning unintentionally; and when atonement has been made for him, he will be forgiven.

“Get away from this congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.” And Moses and Aaron fell facedown.

He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was halted.

The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If she had not turned away, then by now I would surely have killed you and let her live.”

designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.