◄ Exodus 40:20 {18} ►
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Good News Translation
Then he took the two stone tablets and put them in the Covenant Box. He put the poles in the rings of the Box and put the lid on it.

New Revised Standard Version
He took the covenant and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark, and set the mercy seat above the ark;

Contemporary English Version
The stones with the Ten Commandments written on them were stored in the sacred chest, the place of mercy was put on top of it, and the carrying poles were attached.

New American Bible
He took the covenant and put it in the ark; he placed poles alongside the ark and set the cover upon it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle above.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle above.

the testimony

Exodus 16:34 As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept.

Exodus 25:16-21 And thou shalt put in the ark the testimony which I will give thee. . . .

Exodus 31:18 And the Lord, when he had ended these words in Mount Sinai, gave to Moses two stone tables of testimony, written with the finger of God.

Psalm 40:8 That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.

Matthew 3:15 And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulfil all justice. Then he suffered him.

mercy

Exodus 40:3 And shalt put the ark in it, and shalt let down the veil before it:

Exodus 37:6-9 He made also the propitiatory, that is, the oracle, of the purest gold, two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth. . . .

Romans 3:25 Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,

Romans 10:4 For the end of the law is Christ: unto justice to everyone that believeth.

Hebrews 4:16 Let us go therefore with confidence to the throne of grace: that we may obtain mercy and find grace in seasonable aid.

Hebrews 10:19-21 Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the entering into the holies by the blood of Christ: . . .

1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

Context
Setting Up the Tabernacle
…19And spread the roof over the tabernacle, putting over it a cover, as the Lord had commanded. 20And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle above.21And when he had brought the ark into the tabernacle, he drew the veil before it to fulfil the commandment of the Lord.…
Cross References
Hebrews 9:4
Having a golden censer and the ark of the testament covered about on every part with gold, in which was a golden pot that had manna and the rod of Aaron that had blossomed and the tables of the testament.

Exodus 16:34
As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept.

Exodus 25:16
And thou shalt put in the ark the testimony which I will give thee.

Exodus 25:21
In which thou shalt put the testimony that I will give thee.

Exodus 26:34
And thou shalt set the propitiatory upon the ark of the testimony, in the holy of holies.

Exodus 40:19
And spread the roof over the tabernacle, putting over it a cover, as the Lord had commanded.

Deuteronomy 10:5
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.

1 Kings 8:9
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.

1 Chronicles 15:3
And he gathered all Israel together into Jerusalem, that the ark of God might be brought into its place, which he had prepared for it.

2 Chronicles 5:10
And there was nothing else in the ark but the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb when the Lord gave the law to the children of Israel, at their coming out of Egypt.

Exodus 40:19
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