The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 40:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The testimony—i.e; the two tables of stone containing the Ten Commandments (Exodus 25:16; Exodus 31:18). Set the staves on the ark. "Put the staves," that is, "into the rings, and left them there" (Exodus 25:14).

Put the mercy seat above upon the ark. See Exodus 25:21.

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