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mercy seat

The Hebrew and Greek that is translated as “mercy seat,” “cover of the ark” or similar in English is translated by the interconfessional Chichewa translation (publ. 1999) as or “the cover of that box which was the place for forgiving sins upon” (source: Wendland 1998, p. 110) and in the German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999) with Sühnedeckel or “atonement cover.”

Language: Chichewa · German

Verse: 1Chr 28:11 · Exod 25:17 · Exod 25:18 · Exod 25:19 · Exod 25:20 · Exod 25:21 · Exod 25:22 · Exod 26:34 · Exod 30:6 · Exod 31:7 · Exod 35:12 · Exod 37:6 · Exod 37:7 · Exod 37:8 · Exod 37:9 · Exod 39:35 · Exod 40:20 · Heb 9:5 · Lev 16:13 · Lev 16:14 · Lev 16:15 · Lev 16:2 · Num 7:89

Source: Berger / Nord 1999
Christiane Nord
Klaus Berger
Wendland 1998

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