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According to the biblical account (Exodus 25:19; 37:6), the cover was made from pure gold and was the same width and breadth as the ark beneath it, 2.5 cubits long and 1.5 cubits wide. Two golden cherubim were placed at each end of the cover facing one another and the mercy seat, with their wings spread to enclose the mercy seat (Exodus 25:18 ...
The Ark of the Covenant, [a] also known as the Ark of the Testimony [b] or the Ark of God, [c] [1] [2] is a purported religious storage and relic held to be the most sacred object by the Israelites. Religious tradition describes it as a wooden storage chest decorated in solid gold accompanied by an ornamental lid known as the Seat of Mercy .
exodus 25 God instructs Moses to tell all Israelites whose heart so moves them to bring gifts to make a sanctuary — the Tabernacle — and its furnishings, so that God can dwell among them. God instructs them to make the Ark of the Covenant , a table on which to set the bread of display or shewbread , and a six-branched, seven-lamped ...
According to Exodus 25 and 37, the Ark of the Covenant was a rectangular container overlaid with pure gold with two gold cherubim on its cover. It was considered holy; it was kept in the Holy of Holies , the innermost part of the Tabernacle (and later the Temple), was not to be touched directly, and was only to be transported in a prescribed ...
The stone tablets were placed in the Ark of the Covenant (Exodus 25:21, Deuteronomy 10:2,5). [63] ... [151] (Exodus 20:3: "You shall have no other gods before Me ...
According to Exodus 25:10–22, the tablets were stored in the Ark of the Covenant. Alan Millard and Daniel I. Block note parallels between this aspect of Israelite religion with the practice of other Ancient Near Eastern cultures whose treaty texts were preserved in their temples.
A detailed description of a tabernacle, located in Exodus chapters 25–27 and Exodus chapters 35–40, refers to an inner shrine, the Holy of Holies, housing the ark, and an outer chamber with the six-branch seven-lamp Temple menorah, table for showbread, and an altar of incense. [2]
Rabbi Meir and Rabbi Judah differed over what the "testimony" was that God directed Moses to place in the Ark in Exodus 25:21. Rabbi Meir taught that the Ark contained the stone tablets and a Torah scroll. Rabbi Judah, however, taught that the Ark contained only the stone tablets, with the Torah scroll placed outside. Reading Exodus 25:17 ...