Exodus 40:20
Hebrew Text— Exodus 40:20He took and put the covenant into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
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“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”
“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I will give you.
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.
I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations.”
Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”
“They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.
You shall put the covenant which I shall give you into the ark.
You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the covenant in there within the veil. The veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.
You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.
He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the covenant, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their complaining against me, that they not die.”
He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.
Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.
Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put his hand on the ark; and he died there before God.
Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its width.
He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the covenant, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.
but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.
When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in with his sons; and they shall take down the veil of the screen, cover the ark of the Testimony with it,
“When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it; but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. The sons of Kohath shall carry these things belonging to the Tent of Meeting.
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.
Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”
I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.
No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.
“You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins.
He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”
When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they were cleansed.
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,
You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
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.
When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.
Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides. They were written on one side and on the other.
You shall put the ark of the covenant in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.
I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.”
I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside. They are there to this day.
There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
The children of the Levites bore God’s ark on their shoulders with its poles, as Moses commanded according to Yahweh’s word.
There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
There I have set the ark, in which is Yahweh’s covenant, which he made with the children of Israel.”
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.
whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.
having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.