I rejoice in the lifestyle prescribed by your rules as if they were riches of all kinds.

I hold fast to your rules. O Lord, do not let me be ashamed!

Revive me with your loyal love, that I might keep the rules you have revealed.

פ (Pe) Your rules are marvelous. Therefore I observe them.

Your rules remain just. Give me insight so that I can live.

The enemies who chase me are numerous. Yet I do not turn aside from your rules.

“You are to put it in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the testimony (before the atonement lid that is over the testimony), where I will meet you.

But the Levites must camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that the Lord’s anger will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the testimony.”

You are to put into the ark the testimony that I will give to you.

You are to put the atonement lid on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place.

“With it you are to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony,

the ark of the testimony and its poles, and the atonement lid;

Give me a desire for your rules, rather than for wealth gained unjustly.

I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your rules.

I claim your rules as my permanent possession, for they give me joy.

Just as the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony for safekeeping.

You are to place the ark of the testimony in it and shield the ark with the special curtain.

On the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the testimony.

You must place them in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant where I meet with you.

Then Moses placed the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the testimony.