Exodus 40:20

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18 So Moses raised up the tabernacle, fastened its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.

19 And he spread out the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

20 He took ^athe 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.

21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, ^ahung up the veil of the covering, and partitioned off the ark of the Testimony, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

22 ^aHe put the table in the tabernacle of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil;

23 ^aand he set the bread in order upon it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

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Exodus 40:20

The testimony - i. e. the tables of stone with the Ten Commandments engraved on them Exodus 25:16; Exodus 31:18. Nothing else is said to have been put into the ark. These were found there by themselves in the time of Solomon I Kings 8:9; II Chronicles 5:10. The pot of manna was "laid up before the testimony" Exodus 16:34; Aaron' s rod was also placed "before the testimony" Numbers 17:10; and the book of the law was put at "the side of the ark" Deuteronomy 31:26. The expression "before the testimony" appears to mean the space immediately in front of the ark. Most interpreters hold that the pot of manna and Aaron' s rod were at first placed between the ark and the veil, and afterward within the ark Hebrews 9:4. It is very probable that the pot and the rod had been put into the ark before it was taken by the Philistines, but that they were not sent back with the ark and the tables. I Samuel 4:11; I Samuel 6:11.

**Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Exodus 40:20:**

Exodus 25:10-16
Exodus 25:17-22
Psalms 122:4

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