Exodus 16:34

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

1 Kings 8:9

There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone that Moses had placed there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 25:16

You shall put the covenant that I am giving you into the ark.

Exodus 25:21

You shall put the cover on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I am giving you.

Exodus 27:21

In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the Lord. It shall be a perpetual ordinance to be observed throughout their generations by the Israelites.

Exodus 30:36

and you shall beat some of it into powder and put part of it before the covenant in the tent of meeting, where I shall meet with you; it shall be most holy for you.

Exodus 30:6

You shall place it in front of the curtain that is above the ark of the covenant, in front of the cover that is over the covenant, where I will meet with you.

Exodus 31:18

When God finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

Exodus 38:21

These are the records of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the covenant, which were drawn up at the commandment of Moses, the work of the Levites being under the direction of Ithamar son of the priest Aaron.

Exodus 40:20

He took the covenant and put it into the ark and put the poles on the ark and set the cover above the ark,

Numbers 1:50

Rather, you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the covenant and over all its equipment and over all that belongs to it; they are to carry the tabernacle and all its equipment, and they shall tend it and shall camp around the tabernacle.

Numbers 1:53

but the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the covenant, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the Israelites, and the Levites shall perform the duties of the tabernacle of the covenant.”

Numbers 17:10

And the Lord said to Moses, “Put back the staff of Aaron before the covenant, to be kept as a warning to rebels, so that you may make an end of their complaints against me, or else they will die.”

Deuteronomy 10:5

So I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark that I had made, and there they are, as the Lord commanded me.”