According to some traditional interpretations of the Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses ; however, the first of the Books of Kings says that at the time of king Solomon, the Ark contained only the two Tablets of the Law.

According to the Book of Exodus, God instructed Moses on Mount Sinai during his 40-day stay upon the mountain within the thick cloud and darkness where God was ( Ex.

According to Smith's account, and also according to the book's narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as " reformed Egyptian " engraved on golden plates.

According to the Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church, a bishop's responsibilities are

According to the Book of Ruth, the valley to the east is where Ruth of Moab gleaned the fields and returned to town with Naomi.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " a comparison of the Masoretic text with the Septuagint throws some light on the last phase in the history of the origin of the Book of Jeremiah, inasmuch as the translation into Greek was already under way before the work on the Hebrew book had come to an end ...

According to his record, Joseph Smith, Jr. translated the Book of Mormon by gift and power of God through the Urim and Thummim.

According to the Book of Jubilees, Ur Kasdim ( and Chaldea ) took their name from Ura and Kesed, descendants of Arpachshad.

According to William Loeffler, from The American Book of the Dog ( 1891 ), in the chapter on Dachshunds: " The origin of the Dachshund is in doubt, our best authorities disagreeing as to the beginning of the breed.

According to Arnaz himself, in his autobiography A Book ( 1976 ), the family owned three ranches, a palatial home, and a vacation mansion on a private island in Santiago Bay, Cuba.

According to Western scholars the older sections of the Book of Enoch ( mainly in the Book of the Watchers ) date from about 300 BC and the latest part ( Book of Parables ) probably was composed at the end of 1st century BC.

According to First Esdras, a non-canonical Greek translation of the Book of Ezra, he was also a high priest.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the large number of people claimed to have been killed by the Jews is an improbability ; " Perhaps the most striking point against the historical value of the Book of Esther is the remarkable decree permitting the Jews to massacre their enemies and fellow subjects during a period of two days.

According to Ehrman, the Book of Acts tells a different story of Paul's career, but in this case it reports that, while there were " some " Jews converted during Paul's initial preaching in Thessalonica, the gentiles who were converted were " a large number " and the Jews as a body fiercely opposed Paul's work there.

According to the CIA World Fact Book, Mestizo ( mixed Amerindian-Spanish-in local Spanish called Ladino ) and European made 59. 4 % of the population, and K ' iche 9. 1 %, Kaqchikel 8. 4 %, Mam 7. 9 %, Q ' eqchi 6. 3 %, other Mayan 8. 6 %, indigenous non-Mayan 0. 2 %, other 0. 1 %.

According to Book of Zhou and History of Northern Dynasties, Ashina was a branch of Xiongnus and according to Book of Sui and Tongdian, they were " mixed Barbarians " ( 雜胡 / 杂胡, Pinyin: zá hú, Wade-Giles: tsa hu ) from Pingliang.

According to John Gower in Book 7 of the Confessio Amantis, this plant was the herb of the fourth star of Nectanabus ' astrology, Capella.

According to the Book of the Dead, departed souls would undergo a literal journey to reach Heaven, along the way to which there could exist hazards and other entities attempting to deny the reaching of Heaven.

According to the Book of Hosea, he married the prostitute Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, at God's command.

According to the Biblical Book of Genesis, the Patriarch Abraham and his wife Sarah were half-siblings, both being children of Terah ( Ge 20: 12 ).

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

According to the books Exodus, Numbers and Joshua, he became the leader of the Israelite tribes after the death of Moses ; his name was Hoshe ' a the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses called him Yehoshu ' a ( Joshua ) () the name by which he is commonly known ; and he was born in Egypt prior to the Exodus, and was probably the same age as Caleb, with whom he is occasionally associated.

According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in a time when his people, the Children of Israel, were increasing in number and the Egyptian Pharaoh was worried that they might help Egypt's enemies.

According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was a son of Amram, a member of the Levite tribe of Israel descended from Jacob, and his wife, Jochebed.

According to Exodus ( 12: 29 ), God struck down all Egyptian firstborns while the Israelites were not affected.

According to Rebbenu Bachya, the word Yahalom in the verse Exodus 28: 18 means " pearl " and was the stone on the Hoshen representing the tribe of Zebulun.

According to the Jewish tradition the peninsula was crossed by the Israelites during The Exodus from Egypt as detailed in the Hebrew Bible.

According to Jewish tradition, Pentecost commemorates God giving the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai fifty days after the Exodus.

According to the book of Exodus, Aaron and his sons were the first priests appointed as the priestly system was established by God.

According to Africanus, he lived at the time of the Exodus of the House of Israel from Egypt.

According to the book of Exodus, manna is white, like Coriander seed.

According to Exodus 7: 10-12 ( KJV )

According to classical rabbinical literature, because Judah had proposed that he should bear any blame forever, this ultimately led to his bones being rolled around his coffin without cease, while it was being carried during the Exodus, until Moses interceded with God, by arguing that Judah's confession ( in regard to cohabiting with Tamar ) had led to Reuben confessing his own incest.

According to the Torah account, the Lord had driven them out before the Edomites, descendants of Abraham, some time before the Exodus.

According to the Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, the ensign of the Tribe of Joseph, and the Tribe of Benjamin, was the figure of a boy, with the inscription: the cloud of the Lord rested on them until they went forth out of the camp ( a reference to events in the Exodus ).

According to the Book of Exodus in the Bible, God was in heaven standing on a street paved with sapphires, “ And they saw the God of Israel ; and there was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness .” ( Exodus 24: 9-10 ) The elaborate and costly decoration of the cover is meant to glorify the Word of God.

According to Exodus 7: 7, Moses was 80 years old when he initially spoke to Pharaoh on behalf of his people.

According to traditional rabbinic biblical chronology, Moses was 80 years old when the Exodus occurred, the Israelites had been in Egypt for 210 years in total, and thus in combination with the rabbinical claim that Jochebed was born on the border of Egypt, as her parents had entered it, this would require Jochebed to have been 130 years old when she gave birth to Moses ; rabbinical literature regards this to have been alluded to by the biblical description of the dedication of the Israelite altar, at which 130 shekel weight of silver was offered.

According to Exodus, The Levites are apportioned no land in Canaan from which to subsist, but are instead granted the sacrificed animals and grain from all the other tribes for consumption or sale after ritual slaughter and burning.

According to the midrashic Book of Jasher, Issachar married Aridah, the younger daughter of Jobab, a son of Joktan ; the Torah states that Issachar had four sons, who were born in Canaan and migrated with him to Egypt, with their descendants remaining there until the Exodus.

According to Al-Jalalan, the relics in the Ark were the fragments of the two tablets, rods, robes, shoes, mitres of Moses and the vase of manna.

According to most Muslim scholars, the Ark of the Covenant has a religious basis in Islam, and Islam gives it special significance.

According to their oral traditions, some time after the arrival of the Lemba with the Ark, it self-destructed.

According to the Biblical narrative, the Deluge covered the whole world, killing every surface-dwelling creature except Noah, his wife, his sons and their wives, sea creatures, and the animals taken aboard Noah's Ark.

According to the Hot Springs, Ark., Sentinel Record newspaper, Billy Purl's gold lamé XERF jacket is part of the Rock ' n ' Roll Hall of Fame's border radio collection in Cleveland, Ohio.

According to local legend in the Birecik area, the Northern Bald Ibis was one of the first birds that Noah released from the Ark as a symbol of fertility, and a lingering religious sentiment in Turkey helped the colonies there to survive long after the demise of the species in Europe.

According to locals, Noah's Ark landed at the Col de l ' Aulp, whose valley is indeed shaped like a ship ; Noah, Biblical father of viticulture, would have planted the lakeside vineyards of Talloires, which produced wines and brandy until the 1950s.

According to another legend, Noah's Ark alighted in the Takht-i Sulaiman after the Deluge.

According to the 19th-century language scholar, Johann Heinrich Hübschmann, the name " Nakhichavan " in Armenian literally means " the place of descent ", a Biblical reference to the descent of Noah's Ark on the adjacent Mount Ararat.

According to the 2 Maccabees 2: 4 – 7, the Prophet Jeremiah hid the tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant in a cave here.

According to Talmudic sources, the tent sanctuary remained at Shiloh for 369 years until the Ark of the Covenant was taken into the battle camp ( 1 Samuel 4: 3 – 5 ) at Eben-Ezer and captured by the Philistines at Aphek ( probably Antipatris ).

According to the later account in 2 Chronicles, Josiah even destroyed altars and images of pagan deities in cities of the tribes of Manasseh, Ephraim, " and Simeon, as far as Naphtali " (), which were outside of his kingdom, Judah, and returned the Ark of the Covenant to the Temple.

According to the Hebrew Bible, the Holy of Holies contained the Ark of the Covenant with representation of Cherubim.

According to tradition, the Ark came to Ethiopia with Menelik I after he visited his father King Solomon.

According to Mahmud al-Alusi in Ruh al-Ma ' ani fig refers to Mount Judi where Prophet Nuh's Ark landed.

According to the Bible, the mercy seat () was an object which rested upon the Ark of the Covenant, and was connected with the rituals of Yom Kippur ; the term also appears in the Pauline Epistles, and has a significance in Christian theology.

According to the Biblical account ( Exodus 25: 19 ; 37: 6 ), the mercy seat was manufactured from pure gold, and was the same width and breadth as the Ark beneath it – 2. 5 cubits long, and 1. 5 cubits wide ; the Ark and mercy seat were, according to this passage, kept inside the Holy of Holies – the Temple's innermost sanctuary, the Sanctum Sanctorum, which was separated from the remainder of the temple by a thick curtain ( parochet ), because the ark and mercy seat were associated with the presence of Yahweh.

According to some historians, it was used as a military castle however, others claim the structure was initially used as a mosque, but during the Qajar era was used as a military post and storage facility for weapons ( in Persian ' Ark ' or ' Arg ' means " castle ").

According to the Talmud ( Tractate Bava Batra 14b and Gittin 54b ), gevil existed during the time of Moses ( approximately 1280 BCE ); Moses is described as using gevil for the Torah scroll he placed into the Holy Ark of the Covenant.

According to Jewish scripture, Noah's Ark landed on the top of Mount Ararat, a mountain in the Taurus range in the Republic of Turkey, near the modern borders Armenia and Iran.