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Chest containing the Ten Commandments

For another uses, see Ark of the Covenant (band).

The Ark of the Covenant,^[a] also known as the Ark of the Testimony^[b] or the Ark of God,^[c][1][2] is a purported religious storage and relic held to be the most sacred object by the Israelites.

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Religious tradition describes it as a wooden storage chest decorated in solid gold accompanied by an ornamental lid known as the Seat of Mercy. According to the Book of Exodus^[3] and First Book of Kings^[4] in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, the Ark contained the Tablets of the Law, by which God delivered the Ten Commandments to Moses at Mount Sinai.

According to the Book of Exodus,^[5] the Book of Numbers,^[6] and the Epistle to the Hebrews^[7] in the New Testament, it also contained Aaron's rod and a pot of manna.^[8]

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