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In 1981 the movie, "The Raiders of the Lost Ark" with Indiana Jones, brought about a resurgence in the interest about the whereabouts of the Ark of the Covenant. The search and the theories are numerous! What is seldom studied is what were the contents of the Ark of the Covenant. What was inside or outside the Ark. The presentation looks at what the five contents of the Ark may have been at various times throughout history. We will discuss the tablets broken by Moses as well as the restored tablets. Aaron's rod and the golden pout of manna will be discussed as well as the Torah scroll discussed in the Bible.
Scripture References
Listed below are references that support the theory during the time of the Exodus up through the time of the letter to the Hebrews the contents of the Ark of the Covenant may have changed. The jar of manna and Aaron’s rod were temporarily removed and then later returned to the Ark. At one point a Torah scroll was placed inside or near the Ark of the Covenant.
Exodus 25:16 and Talmud Bava Batra 14b.
The original set of Tablets of the Covenant placed inside the Ark of the Covenant with the broken tablets.
“And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.” Exodus 25:16
The broken shards of the first tablets are stored in the ark together with the whole ones.-Talmud Bava Batra 14b.
The Bible does not reveal what happened to the broken tablets given on mount Sinai. We only
know the second set of tablets were stored in the Ark of the Covenant. In his article, The Broken
Tablets, Rabbi Aaron Goldscheider, references the Talmud to answer the question of the location
of the smashed tablets.
Whatever became of the tablets smashed by Moses? The Talmud answers: The broken tablets
were placed in the holy Ark along with the second, intact set ; ‘luchot ve’shivrey luchot
munachim be’aron”(Talmud Bava Batra 14b). The broken tablets were not buried, which is what
we generally do with holy items no longer in use. They were placed in the most sacred place, in
the Aaron Hakodesh, the holy Ark. Eventually they sat next to the second tablets, the whole set
of the Ten Commandments. Together they remained securely protected as the nation journeyed
through the wilderness (See “The Broken Tablets” at aish.com.)
Deuteronomy 10:1-5
Replacement set of the Tablets of the Covenant
“At that time the LORD said unto me: ‘Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first and come up unto Me into the mount; and make thee an ark of wood. And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou didst break, and thou shalt put them in the ark.’ So, I made an ark of acacia-wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in my hand. And He wrote on the tables according to the first writing, the ten words, which the LORD spoke unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them unto me. And I turned and came down from the mount and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the LORD commanded me.”
Exodus 16:33-34,
God tells Moses to put the gold jar of manna.
“And Moses said unto Aaron: ‘Take a jar, and put an omerful of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept throughout your generations.’ As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.”
Numbers 17:10
Was Aaron's staff or rod returned to the Ark of the Covenant after removed previously?
“and the LORD said unto Moses: 'Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept there, for a token against the rebellious children; that there may be made an end of their murmurings against Me, that they die not.'”
1 Kings 8:9
When Solomon brought the Ark of the Covenant back to the Temple in Jerusalem, the other contents, Aaron’s rod and the jar of manna, must have been removed at some point before the Ark was brought into the temple.
“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.”
Deuteronomy 31:26
Torah Scroll inside or placed near the Ark of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies.
‘Take this book of the law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Hebrews 9:1-5 (KJV)
At the time of this letter the sacrificial system is still in place. The Temple was not destroyed by the Romans. This passage indicates the Ark of the Covenant contained gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff, and the stone tablets. Is the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews speaking about the contents of the Ark of the Covenant during the time the letter is being written or is the author making a reference to certain information contained in the Torah?
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