Exodus 26:33

26:33 You are to hang this curtain under the clasps and bring the ark of the testimony in there behind the curtain. ¹  The curtain will make a division for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. ² 

Exodus 32:15

32:15 Moses turned and went down from the mountain with ³  the two tablets of the testimony in his hands. The tablets were written on both sides – they were written on the front and on the back.

Exodus 34:28

34:28 So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; ⁴  he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. ⁵ 

¹ tn The traditional expression is “within the veil,” literally “into the house (or area) of the (special) curtain.”

² tn Or “the Holy of Holies.”

³ tn The disjunctive vav (ו) serves here as a circumstantial clause indicator.

⁵ tn These too are adverbial in relation to the main clause, telling how long Moses was with Yahweh on the mountain.

⁶ tn Heb “the ten words,” though “commandments” is traditional.