As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
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As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
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As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
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As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
Cross-references (13)
Passages linked to Exodus 16:34 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 25:16 You shall put the covenant which I shall give you into the ark.
- Exodus 25:21 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.
- Exodus 27:21 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.
- Exodus 40:20 He took and put the covenant into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
- Numbers 17:10 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.”
- Exodus 30:6 You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the covenant, before the mercy seat that is over the covenant, where I will meet with you.
- Exodus 30:36 You shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the covenant in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.
- Exodus 31:18 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.
- Deuteronomy 10:5 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.
- Exodus 38:21 These are the amounts of materials used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
- Numbers 1:50 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.
- Numbers 1:53 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”
- 1 Kings 8:9 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.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That is, the Ark of the covenant, to wit,…
That is, the Ark of the covenant, to wit, after that the Ark was made.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 16:34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron…
Exo 16:34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
Ver. 34. To be kept.] For the use of succeeding ages in the most holy places. So Christ, glorified in his humanity, abides for ever. {Heb 7:24}
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. Before the ark, which is called the ark…
i.e. Before the ark, which is called the ark of the testimony, Exo 25:16; and here, by way of abbreviation,
the testimony, or witness, because in it were the tables of the covenant, or the law of God, which was a testimony of God’s authority and will, and of man’s subjection and duty, or of the covenant made between God and man. See Deu 10:5; 31:26.
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Quest. How could this be laid up before the ark, when the ark was not yet built?
Answ. This text only tells us that Aaron did lay it up, but it doth not determine the time, nor affirm that it was done at this instant, but rather intimates the contrary, and that it was done afterwards when the testimony, i.e. the ark, was built. As the next verse also speaks of what was done in the following forty years.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain An omer of this manna was laid up in…
An omer of this manna was laid up in a golden pot as we are told, Heb. ix, 4, and kept before the testimony, or the ark, when it was afterwards made, The preservation of this manna from waste and corruption, was a standing miracle; and therefore the more proper memorial of this miraculous food. The manna is called spiritual meat, 1 Cor. x, 3, because it was typical of spiritual blessings. Christ himself is the true manna, the bread of life, of which that was a figure, John vi, 49-51. The word of God is the manna by which our souls are nourished, Matt. iv, 4. The comforts of the Spirit are hidden manna, Rev. ii, 17. These comforts from heaven as the manna did, are the support of the divine life in the soul while we are in the wilderness of this world: it is food for Israelites, for those only that follow the pillar of cloud and fire: it is to be gathered; Christ in the word is to be applied to the soul, and the means of grace used: we must every one of us gather for ourselves. There was manna enough for all, enough for each, and none had too much; so in Christ there is a compleat sufficiency, and no superfluity. But they that did eat manna hungered again, died at last, and with many of them God was not well pleased: whereas they that feed on Christ by faith shall never hunger, and shall die no more, and with them God will be forever well pleased. The Lord evermore give us this bread!
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 34. Laid it up before the testimony] The…
Verse 34. Laid it up before the testimony] The עדות eduth or testimony belonged properly to the tabernacle, but that was not yet built. Some are of opinion that the tabernacle, built under the direction of Moses, was only a renewal of one that had existed in the patriarchal times. See Clarke on Ex 16:9. The word signifies reference to something beyond itself; thus the tabernacle, the manna, the tables of stone, Aaron's rod, &c., all bore reference and testimony to that spiritual good which was yet to come, viz., JESUS CHRIST and his salvation.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The Testimony - See the marginal references.
The Testimony - See the marginal references.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 34. Before the Testimony — The two stone tablets…
34. Before the Testimony — The two stone tablets of the law, afterwards particularly described, (Exo_34:1, etc.,) which were kept in the sacred ark, covered by the mercy-seat. This law was called a Testimony against the sins of Israel.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 34. before the Testimony] i.e. before the Ark, which…
34. before the Testimony] i.e. before the Ark, which contained the ‘Testimony,’ P’s standing expression for the Decalogue (see on Exo_25:16): cf. Exo_30:36, Num_17:4; Num_17:10. Cf. Heb_9:4.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Aaron laid it up before the testimony. "The testimony"…
Aaron laid it up before the testimony. "The testimony" is not the Ark of the Covenant, which is never so called, but the Covenant itself, or the two tables of stone engraved by the finger of God, which are termed "the testimony" in Exo_25:16-21 Exo_40:20; etc. The pot of manna was laid up inside the ark (Heb_9:4) in front of the two tables.
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