³⁴ As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up ^(A)before the Testimony, to be kept.

²¹ In the tabernacle of meeting, ^(A)outside the veil which is before the Testimony, ^(B)Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening until morning before the Lord. ^(C)It shall be a statute forever to their generations on behalf of the children of Israel.

^21 (A)You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and ^(B)in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you.

¹⁶ And you shall put into the ark ^(A)the Testimony which I will give you.

¹⁰ And the Lord said to Moses, “Bring ^(A)Aaron’s rod back before the Testimony, to be kept ^(B)as a sign against the rebels, ^(C)that you may put their complaints away from Me, lest they die.”

²⁰ He took ^(A)the Testimony and put it into the ark, inserted the poles through the rings of the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark.

¹⁸ And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses ^(A)two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

³⁶ And you shall beat some of it very fine, and put some of it before the Testimony in the tabernacle of meeting ^(A)where I will meet with you. ^(B)It shall be most holy to you.

⁶ And you shall put it before the ^(A)veil that is before the ark of the Testimony, before the ^(B)mercy seat that is over the Testimony, where I will meet with you.

^9 (A)Nothing was in the ark ^(B)except the two tablets of stone which Moses ^(C)put there at Horeb, ^(D)when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.