Nothing was in the ark, only the two tables of stone which Moses put there in Horeb, when Jehovah cut a covenant with the sons of Israel as they went out of the land of Egypt.
And he brought out the son of the king, and put the crown on him, and the testimony. And they made him to reign, and anointed him, and clapped their hands, and said, Let the king live!
And they brought out the son of the king, and put the crown on him, and the testimony, and made him to reign; and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and cried, Let the king live!
And you shall hang the veil under the hooks. And you shall bring the ark of the testimony there inside to the veil. And the veil shall divide for you between the sanctuary and the Holy of Holies.
In the tabernacle of the congregation from outside the veil which is by the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall arrange them from evening until morning before Jehovah; a never-ending statute for their generations, from the sons of Israel.
And you shall grind some of it fine, and put some of it in front of the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I meet you. It shall be most holy to you.
And you shall put it in front of the veil which is beside the ark of the testimony; in front of the mercy seat which is over the testimony, there where I meet you.
And when He finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave to Moses the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written by the finger of God.
And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets written on their two sides, on this and on that side they were written.
And it happened as Moses was going down from Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony being in Moses’ hand as he went down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face had begun shining brilliantly through His speaking with him.
These are the numbered things of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, which were numbered at the mouth ofMoses for the service of the Levites in the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
The tent of the testimonywas among our fathers in the wilderness, even as the One commanded, speaking to Moses to make it according to the pattern which he had seen,
Take this book of the Law, and you shall put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, so that it may be there for a witness against you.
having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant covered around on all sides with gold, in which was the golden pot having the manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;