So I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire. I carried the two stone tablets of the covenant in my two hands.

Moses went back down the mountain. He carried the two stone tablets with the commandments written on both sides.

Moses came down from Mount Sinai. The two tablets of the testimony were in Moses' hand as he came down from the mountain. Moses did not know that the skin of his face glowed because he spoke with God.

Put the

I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you shattered. You must place them in the Ark.'

I will give you the Ten Commandments written on two flat tablets. Put them inside the chest.

He took the words of God's promise (covenant) and put them in the ark. He put the poles on the ark and placed the throne of mercy on top of the ark.

There they

Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan River, in the place where the feet of the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant stood, and they are there to this day.

The ends of the poles could be seen by anyone standing directly in front of the Most Holy Place, but from nowhere else.

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Aaron placed it before the Testimony, to be kept just as Jehovah commanded Moses.

I will give you the Ten Commandments written on two flat tablets. Put them inside the chest.