Exodus 25:16
25:16 You are to put into the ark the testimony
that I will give to you.
Exodus 25:21
25:21 You are to put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and in the ark you are to put the testimony I am giving you.
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.
The curtain will make a division for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place.
Exodus 34:29
The Radiant Face of Moses
34:29 Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand – when he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
Exodus 40:3
40:3 You are to place the ark of the testimony in it and shield the ark with the special curtain.
Exodus 40:20-21
40:20 He took the testimony and put it in the ark, attached the poles to the ark, and then put the atonement lid on the ark.
40:21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, hung
the protecting curtain,
and shielded the ark of the testimony from view, just as the
Lord had commanded Moses.
Deuteronomy 10:2-5
10:2 I will write on the tablets the same words
that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.”
10:3 So I made an ark of acacia
wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.
10:4 The
Lord then wrote on the tablets the same words,
the ten commandments,
which he
had spoken to you at the mountain from the middle of the fire at the time of that assembly, and he
gave them to me.
10:5 Then I turned, went down the mountain, and placed the tablets into the ark I had made – they are still there, just as the
Lord commanded me.
Deuteronomy 10:1
The Opportunity to Begin Again
10:1 At that same time the Lord said to me, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.
Deuteronomy 8:9
8:9 a land where you may eat food
in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron
and from whose hills you can mine copper.
Deuteronomy 8:1-2
The Lord’s Provision in the Desert
8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments I am giving you today so that you may live, increase in number, and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors.
8:2 Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
Deuteronomy 5:10
5:10 but I show covenant faithfulness
to the thousands
who choose
me and keep my commandments.