You shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, someone among them will invite you, and you will eat of the sacrifice,

The Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

He was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

The Shining Face of Moses

Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.

Making the Ark of the Covenant

Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; it was two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.

Materials of the Tabernacle

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.

the ark of the covenant with its poles and the cover;

You shall put in it the ark of the covenant, and you shall screen the ark with the curtain.

You shall put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the covenant and set up the screen for the entrance of the tabernacle.

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

and he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the curtain for screening and screened the ark of the covenant as the Lord had commanded Moses.