as the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron laid it up before the testimony to be kept.

And you shall set it before the veil that is over the ark of the Testimony, wherein I will make Myself known to you from there.

And I will make Myself known to you from there, and I will speak to you from above the mercy seat between the two cherubim, which are upon the Ark of Testimony, even in all things which I shall charge you concerning the children of Israel.

a perpetual sacrifice throughout your generations, at the door of the tabernacle of witness before the Lord; wherein I will be known to you from there, so as to speak to you.

And from there I will give orders to the children of Israel, and I will be sanctified in My glory.

And the Lord said to Moses, Speak to Aaron your brother, and let him not come in at all times into the holy place within the veil before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark of the testimony, and he shall not die; for I will appear in a cloud on the mercy seat.