Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Exodus 25:16

And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.

KJV

Ponesque in arca testificationem quam dabo tibi.

Vulgate

καὶ ποιήσεις ἱλαστήριον ἐπίθεμα χρυσίου καθαροῦ, δύο πήχεων καὶ ἡμίσους τὸ μῆκος, καὶ πήχεος καὶ ἡμίσους τὸ πλάτος.

LXX

And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.

ASV

וְ/נָתַתָּ֖ אֶל הָ/אָרֹ֑ן אֵ֚ת הָ/עֵדֻ֔ת אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֶתֵּ֖ן אֵלֶֽי/ךָ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲר֣וֹן
'rvn
noun · 202×
אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
ךָ
k
noun · 55×
ם
m
verb · 1995×

Typology

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2058The "ten words" sum up and proclaim God's law: "These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. and he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them to me."19 For this reason these two tables are called "the Testimony." In fact, they contain the terms o…
§2130Nevertheless, already in the Old Testament, God ordained or permitted the making of images that pointed symbolically toward salvation by the incarnate Word: so it was with the bronze serpent, the ark of the covenant, and the cherubim.69

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 8:9 — There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
  • 2Chr 23:11 — Then they brought out the king’s son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.
  • 2Kgs 11:12 — And he brought forth the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
  • Deut 10:5 — And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
  • Deut 31:26 — Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
  • Exod 16:34 — As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
  • Exod 16:34 — As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
  • Exod 26:33 — And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most hol
  • Heb 9:4 — Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;