and I turned and went down the mountain. Then, just as the LORD had commanded, I put them in the Box that I had made---and they have been there ever since."

Then put in the Box the two stone tablets that I will give you, on which the commandments are written.

Make two winged creatures of hammered gold,

The winged creatures are to face each other across the lid, and their outspread wings are to cover it.

I will meet you there, and from above the lid between the two winged creatures I will give you all my laws for the people of Israel.

Then he took the two stone tablets and put them in the Covenant Box. He put the poles in the rings of the Box and put the lid on it.

There was nothing inside the Covenant Box except the two stone tablets which Moses had placed there at Mount Sinai, when the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel as they were coming from Egypt.

In it were the gold altar for the burning of incense and the Covenant Box all covered with gold and containing the gold jar with the manna in it, Aaron's stick that had sprouted leaves, and the two stone tablets with the commandments written on them.