And thou shalt set the altar over against the veil, that hangeth before the ark of the testimony before the propitiatory wherewith the testimony is covered, where I will speak to thee.
And he commanded him, saying: Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he enter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before the propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I will appear in a cloud over the oracle)
And when Moses entered into the tabernacle of the covenant, to consult the oracle, he heard the voice of one speaking to him from the propitiatory, that was over the ark between the two cherubims: and from this place he spoke to him.
Now in the ark there was nothing else but the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
And they brought out the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and the testimony, and gave him the law to hold in his hand. And they made him king: and Joiada the high priest and his sons anointed him. And they prayed for him, and said: God save the king.
And returning from the mount, I came down, and put the tables into the ark, that I had made: and they are there till this present, as the Lord commanded me.