Deuteronomy 10:5

Detailed Stipulations

⁴ He wrote on the tablets, like the former writing. It was the Ten Commandments (Ten Words) that Jehovah proclaimed to you on the mountain. It was from the middle of the fire on the day of the assembly. Jehovah gave them to me. ⁵ Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the Lord commanded me.” ⁶ The sons of Israel set out from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died. He was buried there. Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his place.

Ark of the Covenant

Lord Commanded

Jehovah

Exodus 34:29

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.

Exodus 40:20

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.

Exodus 25:16

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

Exodus 32:15

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

Deuteronomy 9:15

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.

Deuteronomy 10:2

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

Joshua 4:9

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.

1 Kings 8:8-9

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