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Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had put [in it] at Horeb,[a][b]where the Lord had made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of Egypt.
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And the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark so that the cherubim formed a cover above the ark and its poles.
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The poles were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen from outside; they are there to this very day.
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Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had put [in it] at Horeb,where the Lord had made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of Egypt.
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When the priests came out of the holy place-for all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves regardless of their tour of duty-
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the Levitical singers of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, and of their sons and their relatives, dressed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps and lyres, were standing east of the altar, and with them were 120 priests blowing trumpets.