Exodus 25:21
Good News Translation
Put the two stone tablets inside the Box and put the lid on top of it.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark; and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I shall give you.

Contemporary English Version
Inside it place the two flat stones with the Ten Commandments on them and put the gold lid on top of the chest.

New American Bible
This cover you shall then place on top of the ark. In the ark itself you are to put the covenant which I will give you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In which thou shalt put the testimony that I will give thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In which thou shalt put the testimony that I will give thee.

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Exodus 25:17 Thou shalt make also a propitiatory of the purest gold: the length thereof shall be two cubits and a half, and the breadth a cubit and a half.

Exodus 26:34 And thou shalt set the propitiatory upon the ark of the testimony, in the holy of holies.

Romans 10:4 For the end of the law is Christ: unto justice to everyone that believeth.

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Exodus 25:16 And thou shalt put in the ark the testimony which I will give thee.

Context
The Mercy Seat
20Let them cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their wings, and covering the oracle, and let them look one towards the other, their faces being turned towards the propitiatory wherewith the ark is to be covered. 21In which thou shalt put the testimony that I will give thee.22Thence will I give orders, and will speak to thee over the propitiatory, and from the midst of the two cherubims, which shall be upon the ark of the testimony, all things which I will command the children of Israel by thee.…
Cross References
Exodus 16:34
As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept.

Exodus 25:16
And thou shalt put in the ark the testimony which I will give thee.

Exodus 26:34
And thou shalt set the propitiatory upon the ark of the testimony, in the holy of holies.

Exodus 30:6
And thou shalt set the altar over against the veil, that hangeth before the ark of the testimony before the propitiatory wherewith the testimony is covered, where I will speak to thee.

Exodus 40:20
And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle above.

Leviticus 16:2
And he commanded him, saying: Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he enter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before the propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I will appear in a cloud over the oracle),

Leviticus 16:13
That when the perfumes are put upon the fire, the cloud and vapour thereof may cover the oracle, which is over the testimony, and he may not die.

Numbers 7:89
And when Moses entered into the tabernacle of the covenant, to consult the oracle, he heard the voice of one speaking to him from the propitiatory, that is over the ark between the two cherubims, and from this place he spoke to him.

Numbers 17:4
And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the covenant before the testimony, where I will speak to thee.

1 Kings 8:9
Now in the ark there was nothing else but 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.

2 Chronicles 23:11
And they brought out the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and the testimony, and gave him the law to hold in his hand, and they made him king: and Joiada the high priest and his sons anointed him: and they prayed for him, and said: God save the king.

Exodus 25:20
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