As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
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.
And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.