As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
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- WEB As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
- KJV As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
- BSB And Aaron placed it in front of the Testimony, to be preserved just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- NASB As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony, to be kept.
- NLT Aaron did just as the Lord had commanded Moses. He eventually placed it in the Ark of the Covenant—in front of the stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant.
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Quick answer
As God commanded, Aaron laid the manna up before the Testimony to be kept. Obedience preserves the memorial of God's faithfulness.
Overview
The manna is stored before the Testimony, the ark containing the covenant law, joining God's provision and his word as enduring witnesses. This anticipates the completed tabernacle and ark, though placed there in fulfillment of the present command. The careful obedience underscores Israel's call to honor and remember God's saving acts.
Cross-references & the web
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- Exod 25:16You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.
- Exod 25:21You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.
- Exod 27:21In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, 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.
- Exod 40:20He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
- Num 17:10Yahweh said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not die.”
- Exod 31:18He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.
- Exod 30:36and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.
- Exod 30:6You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.
- Deut 10:5I 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.
- 1 Kgs 8:9There 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.
- Num 1:53But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”
- Exod 38:21This is the amount of material 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.
- Num 1:50but 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.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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