^20 (A)The cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings and ^[a]facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the mercy seat.

⁹ The cherubim had their wings spread upward, covering the ^[a]mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward each other; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.

⁷ For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim made a covering over the ark and its poles from above.