Exodus 16:34

16:34 Just as the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony ¹  for safekeeping. ² 

Exodus 26:33-34

26:33 You are to hang this curtain under the clasps and bring the ark of the testimony in there behind the curtain. ³  The curtain will make a division for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. ⁴  26:34 You are to put the atonement lid on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place.

Exodus 32:15

32:15 Moses turned and went down from the mountain with ⁵  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.

[16:34]  ¹ sn The “Testimony” is a reference to the Ark of the Covenant; so the pot of manna would be placed before Yahweh in the tabernacle. W. C. Kaiser says that this later instruction came from a time after the tabernacle had been built (see Exod 25:10-22; W. C. Kaiser, Jr., “Exodus,” EBC 2:405). This is not a problem since the final part of this chapter had to have been included at the end of the forty years in the desert.

[16:34]  ² tn “for keeping.”

[26:33]  ³ tn The traditional expression is “within the veil,” literally “into the house (or area) of the (special) curtain.”

[26:33]  ⁴ tn Or “the Holy of Holies.”

[32:15]  ⁵ tn The disjunctive vav (ו) serves here as a circumstantial clause indicator.