⁹ There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets^(A) that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.

²¹ Place the cover on top of the ark^(A) and put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law^(B) that I will give you.

⁴ which had the golden altar of incense^(A) and the gold-covered ark of the covenant.^(B) This ark contained the gold jar of manna,^(C) Aaron’s staff that had budded,^(D) and the stone tablets of the covenant.^(E)

²⁰ He took the tablets of the covenant law^(A) and placed them in the ark,^(B) attached the poles to the ark and put the atonement cover^(C) over it.

² I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the ark.”^(A)

³ So I made the ark out of acacia wood^(B) and chiseled^(C) out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands. ⁴ The Lord wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments^(D) he had proclaimed^(E) to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.^(F) And the Lord gave them to me. ⁵ Then I came back down the mountain^(G) and put the tablets in the ark^(H) I had made,^(I) as the Lord commanded me, and they are there now.^(J)