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Exodus 40:20

Moses took the Testimony and put it in the Ark. He attached the poles to the Ark, and he placed the atonement cover on the top of the Ark.

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In The King James Version

And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:

In Context

19Then he spread the tent over the Tabernacle and placed the covering over the tent, as the Lord had ordered him to do.

21Then he carried the Ark into the Tabernacle. He put up the veil, and made sure the Ark of the Testimony was behind it, as the Lord had ordered him to do.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:34Aaron did so and placed the jar in front of the Testimony, to be preserved just as the Lord had ordered Moses.

Exodus 31:18When the Lord finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, stone tablets written on by the finger of God.

Exodus 40:3Place the Ark of the Testimony inside it. Make sure the Ark is behind the veil.

1 Kings 8:9There was nothing in the Ark apart from the two tablets of stone that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord had made an agreement with the Israelites after they came out of the land of Egypt.

Matthew 3:15“Please do so, because it's good for us to do what God says is right,” Jesus told him. So John agreed to do it.

Romans 10:4For Christ is the fulfillment of the law. All those who trust in him are made right.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 40:17-34

16 Thus did Moses: according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he. 17 And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up. 18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars. 19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the Lord commanded Moses. 20 And he took and put the… Read the whole commentary →

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