34As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
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In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 32-36)God having provided manna to be his people’s food in the wilderness, and to be to them a continual feast, we are here told, 1. How the memory of it was preserved. An omer of this manna was laid up in a golden pot , as we are told (Heb. 9:4), and kept before the testimony , or the ark, when it was afterwards made, Exod. 16:32-34. The preservation of this manna from waste and corruption was a standi…
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