Contradictions and Paradoxes in Exodus 37:6

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Exodus 37:6 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Exodus 37:6. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, the mercy seat was a special, shiny gold cover made for the box where important things were kept, and it was about as long as a little bed and as wide as a big pillow. This seat showed how special and fancy the place where God would meet His people was.

Exodus 37:6: And he made the mercy seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a half [was] the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

Contradiction with 1 Kings 6:20

Contradicts Exodus 37:6 in dimensions of the Mercy Seat compared to the Holy of Holies care dimensions.

1 Kings 6:20: And the oracle in the forepart [was] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and [so] covered the altar [which was of] cedar. [pure: Heb. shut up]

Contradiction with Hebrews 9:4

Provides different content inside the Ark compared to the context of Exodus 37:6, which focuses on construction.

Hebrews 9:4: Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein [was] the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

Contradiction with Exodus 20:4

Contradicts the commandment against making graven images while Exodus 37:6 describes making of the Mercy Seat with cherubim.

Exodus 20:4: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:
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