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In there they placed the golden incense altar and the golden ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the golden urn that contained manna (the miraculous food God gave our ancestors in the desert), Aaron’s rod that budded,[a] and the tablets of the covenant that Moses brought down from the mountain. Above the ark were the golden images of heavenly beings[b] of glory who shadowed the mercy seat.

I cannot go into any greater detail about this now. When all is prepared as it is supposed to be, the priests go back and forth daily into the first tent to carry out the duties described in the law.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:4 Numbers 17:1–13
  2. 9:5 Greek cheroubin

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