The Ark of the Covenant
- Instructions for the Ark's construction.
- It is intended to contain the "testimony" which the Lord would provide.
- Lord to speak from between the Cherubim and above the mercy seat.
- 33) ¶ And thou shalt hang up the veil under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony: and the veil shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
- 34) And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
- 14) And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
- 15) ¶ Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
- The priests carry the Ark, and its presence allows the Israelites to cross the Jordan River on dry ground.
- Good encyclopedic discussion of the Ark of the Covenant.
- An interesting conjectural piece describing how the Nephites might have had their own equivalent to the Ark of the Covenant, and what that might have consisted of.
- D. John Butler, "In the Language of Adam", Ch. 10, p. 122
- Although the Hebrew words translated as "ark" in "Noah's Ark" and "Ark of the Covenant", are not the same word, they both mean "chest", and apart from being translated into the same word in English, the Septuagint also uses the same word. The ark is considered the thone of God, and, notably, boats are frequent locations of the thrones of deities in Egyptian depictions. An example of this can be seen in Figure 3 of Facsimile Two of the Book of Abraham.
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