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Israel's people made a special tent for God.[a] The first room in that tent was called the holy place. The special lampstand was in this room. The special table with the bread which they offered to God was there too.[b]

Behind a second curtain, there was a very special room. It was called the Most Holy Place. The gold altar for incense was in there.[c] The Covenant Box was there too.[d] The box had gold on all its sides. Inside the box was the gold pot that contained the special food called manna.[e] The box also contained Aaron's stick that had grown leaves.[f] It also contained the two flat stones on which God had written the rules of his agreement with his people.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:2 Exodus 26; 27:9-19 describe the special tent that God told Moses to make.
  2. 9:2 Exodus 25:31-39; 25:23-30 describe the gold lampstand and the special table for bread.
  3. 9:4 Exodus 30:1-10 describes the gold table where they burned incense.
  4. 9:4 Exodus 25:10-22 describes the special Covenant Box.
  5. 9:4 Exodus 16:14-31 describes how God supplied manna for Israel's people to eat in the wilderness. Exodus 16:32-34 describes how Aaron put some of this special food in a pot to keep it.
  6. 9:4 Numbers 17:1-11 describes how Aaron's stick grew leaves, flowers and fruit. This showed people that God had really chosen Moses and Aaron to be the leaders of Israel's people.