The Holy Scripture - english version B.indd - Sabbat

300THE PRESENT TRUTH - July, 1849.saying, take this BOOK of the law,and put it in the SIDE of the ark ofthe covenant of the Lord {YAHWEH}your God.“- Deut. xxxi:.24-26. Seeverses 9-11.„And when they brought out themoney that was brought into the houseof the Lord {YAHWEH}, Hilkiahthe priest found a BOOK of the lawof the Lord {YAHWEH}, given bythe HAND of Moses.“ (See marg.)2 Chron. xxxiv: 14.„And he read in their ears all thewords of the BOOK of the COVENANTthat was found in the house of the Lord{YAHWEH}.“ See 2 Chron. xxxiv: 30.„And he read in their ears all thewords of the BOOK of the COVENANTwhich was found in the house of theLord {YAHWEH}.“ 2 Kings xxiii: 2.„And the king commanded all thepeople, saying, keep the passoverto the Lord {YAHWEH} your God,as it is written in the BOOK of thisCOVENANT.“ 2 Kings xxiii: 21.„And they spoke to Ezra the scribe,to bring the BOOK of the law ofMoses, which the Lord {YAHWEH}had commanded to Israel.“ See Neh.viii: 1-3.„Then said I, lo, I come (in thevolume of the BOOK it is writtenof me,) to do your will, O God.“Heb. x: 7; Gal. iii: 10.„Have you not read in the BOOK ofMoses.“ Mark xii : 26.The Law of God, or the tenCommandments.„And the Lord {YAHWEH} saidto Moses, come up to me into themount, and be there: and I will giveyou TABLES OF STONE, and a law,and commandments which I HAVEWRITTEN; that you may teach them.“Ex. xxiv: 12.„And he gave to Moses, when hehad made an end of communing withhim upon mount Sinai, two tables oftestimony, tables of stone written withthe FINGER OF GOD.“ Ex. xxxi: 18.„And the tables were the work ofGod, and the writing was the WRITINGOF GOD, graven upon the tables,“ SeeEx. xxii: 15-16.„And he wrote upon the tablesthe words of the COVENANT, THETEN COMMANDMENTS.“ SeeEx. xxxiv: 28, 29.„And he declared to you HISCOVENANT, which he commandedyou to perform, EVEN TENCOMMANDMENTS; and he wrotethem upon two tables of stone.“Deut. iv: 13.„And it came to pass at the endof forty days and forty nights, thatthe Lord {YAHWEH} gave me thetwo tables of stone, EVEN THETABLES OF THE COVENANT.“ SeeDeut. ix: 9-11; v: 22.Here we see two laws, and twocovenants; one written by the handof Moses in a book, the other writtenwith the finger of God on two tables ofstone.The ark of the covenant - a smallchest, four feet six inches and elevensixteenths long, and two feet, eightinches and thirteen sixteenths wide, andhigh, was made purposely to containthe covenant of commandments.See Ex. xxv: 10-16; Deut. x: 5;Kings viii: 9; Heb. ix: 4. The placefor the ark in the tabernacle andtemple, was the most holy within the