² And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and ^(A)you shall put them in the ark.’

^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.

⁴ which had the ^(A)golden censer and ^(B)the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were ^(C)the golden pot that had the manna, ^(D)Aaron’s rod that budded, and ^(E)the tablets of the covenant;

⁵ Then I turned and ^(A)came down from the mountain, and ^(B)put the tablets in the ark which I had made; ^(C)and there they are, just as the Lord commanded me.”

^13 (A)So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, ^(B)the Ten Commandments; and ^(C)He wrote them on two tablets of stone.

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.

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

^17 (B)“You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits shall be its length and a cubit and a half its width. ¹⁸ And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. ¹⁹ Make one cherub at one end, and the other cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim at the two ends of it of one piece with the mercy seat. ²⁰ And ^(C)the cherubim shall stretch out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and they shall face one another; the faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat. ^21 (D)You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and ^(E)in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you. ²² And ^(F)there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from ^(G)between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.