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For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.
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The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside; they are there to this day.
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There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel after they came out of Egypt.
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Now when the priests came out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, without regard to their divisions),
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all the levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, their sons and kindred, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with one hundred twenty priests who were trumpeters.