Exodus 25:16

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Exodus 25:16

And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.

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As the Lord commanded Moses, Aaron placed it before the testimony to be preserved.

In the tent of meeting outside the veil that is in front of the testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamp from evening until morning before the Lord. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites throughout their generations.

“You are to place the altar in front of the veil by the ark of the testimony—in front of the mercy seat that is over the testimony—where I will meet with you.

When He finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God.

Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides—inscribed front and back.

As Moses descended from Mount Sinai—with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands as he descended the mountain—he did not realize that the skin of his face shone as a result of his speaking with the Lord.

This is the inventory for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, that was recorded at Moses’ command. It was the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

Then place them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony where I meet with you.

I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you are to place them in the ark.’

“Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

Nothing was in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had put there at Horeb,

where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of the land of Egypt.

He brought out the king’s son, put the crown on him, gave him the testimony,

and made him king. They anointed him and clapped their hands and cried, “Long live the king!”

When they brought out the money that had been deposited in the Lord’s temple, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of the Lord written by the hand of Moses.

“Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted with the spoken words of God.

It contained the gold altar of incense and the ark of the covenant, covered with gold on all sides, in which there was a gold jar containing the manna, Aaron’s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.