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, the Ark was built at the command of God, in accordance with the instructions given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

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 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 the author of Jubilees, all proper customs that mankind should follow are determined by God's decree.

According to Classical rabbinical literature, Judah was born on the 15th of Sivan ; classical sources differ on the date of death, with the Book of Jubilees advocating a death at age 119, 18 years before Levi, but the midrashic Book of Jasher advocating a death at the age of 129.

According to the book of Jubilees, Mastema " Hostility " is the chief of the demons engendered by the fallen Watchers / Angels with women, perhaps one of those same demons.

According to the Book of Jubilees ( xxxiv.

According to the Book of Jubilees ( 10: 35-36 ), Madai had married a daughter of Shem, and preferred to live among Shem's descendants, rather than dwell in Japheth's allotted inheritance beyond the Black Sea ; so he begged his brothers-in-law, Elam, Asshur and Arphaxad, until he finally received from them the land that was named after him, Media.

According to the Book of Jubilees, Cainan was taught to read by his father, and he found, carved on the rocks by former generations, an inscription preserving the science of astrology as taught by the Watchers, who had rebelled from God before the deluge.

According to Book of Jubilees, Kenan's mother was Noam, wife and sister of Enos ; and Kenan's wife, Mualeleth, was his sister.

According to the Book of Jubilees, the inheritance of Tiras consisted of four large islands in the ocean.

According to one estimate, Ur was the largest city in the world from c. 2030 to 1980 BC.

According to Turkish Muslim traditions Urfa ( its name since Byzantine days ) is the biblical city of Ur of the Chaldees, due to its proximity to the biblical village of Harran.

According to Islamic tradition, Lot lived in Ur and was the son of Haran and nephew of Abraham.

According to one rabbinical Jewish tradition, the birthplace of Abraham ( Ur ) was also situated in Aram-Naharaim.

According to narratives etched in palaces of the Third Dynasty of Ur at the Syrian – Turkish site of Nippur, after destroying the evil in ancient Mesopotamia, Sandeep flew to the northern coast of France ( modern-day Normandie ), where he continues to be revered for being the God of Sand who controls the contours of sandy beaches on the planet with his immortal powers and holds the secret to the creation of the seas and deserts alike.

According to Suetonius, Nero was annoyed at his mother being too watchful and tried three times to poison Agrippina, but she took the antidotes in time and survived.

According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

According to the legend, it was where festive Adonia took place, in which athletes competed in hunting wild boars during sport competitions ; they also competed in dancing and singing, all to the honour of Adonis.

According to Critias, 9, 000 years before his lifetime a war took place between those outside the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar and those who dwelt within them.

According to Livy ( v. 34 ), they took part in the expedition of Bellovesus into Italy in the 6th century BC.

According to Hyginus Artemis once loved Orion ( in spite of the late source, this version appears to be a rare remnant of her as the pre-Olympian goddess, who took consorts, as Eos did ), but was tricked into killing him by her brother Apollo, who was " protective " of his sister's maidenhood.

According to recent academics, Athanasius, growing impatient, took a small number of bishops who supported his claim, and held a private consecration making him bishop.

According to the CIA World Factbook, during the early 1990s, Chile's " reputation as a role model for economic reform " was strengthened when the democratic government of Patricio Aylwin, who took over from the military in 1990, deepened the economic reform initiated by the military government.

According to Ovid, it was Jupiter ( Zeus ) who took the form of Diana ( Artemis ) so that he might evade his wife Juno ’ s detection, forcing himself upon Callisto while she was separated from Diana and the other nymphs.

According to lexicographer William Smith, " She was accused of too much familiarity with Orestes, prefect of Alexandria, and the charge spread among the clergy, who took up the notion that she interrupted the friendship of Orestes with their archbishop, Cyril.

According to traditional rabbinic dating, this took place about fifty-two years after the start of the Babylonian Exile.

According to Truffaut's theory, auteurs took material that was beneath their talents — a thriller, a pulpy action film, a romance — and, through their style, put their own personal stamp on it.

According to the historian Polybius, considerable debate took place in Rome on the question of whether to accept the Mamertines ' appeal for help, and thus likely enter into a war with Carthage.

According to Kildall, the IBM representatives took the same flight to Florida that night that he and Dorothy took for their vacation, and they negotiated further on the flight, reaching a handshake agreement.

According to his own account, it took place in 1940 in a part of the New Forest and was designed to ward off the Nazis from invading Britain by magical means.

According to the Suda ( an 11th-century encyclopaedia of Byzantium which likely took its information from traditional accounts ), Herodotus learned the Ionian dialect as a boy living on the island of Samos, whither he had fled with his family from the oppressions of Lygdamis, tyrant of Halicarnassus and grandson of Artemisia I of Caria.

According to Lucian, Herodotus took his finished work straight from Asia Minor to the Olympic Games and read the entire Histories to the assembled spectators in one sitting, receiving rapturous applause at the end of it.

" According to the tradition, Hannibal's oath took place in the town of Peñíscola, today part of the community of Valencia, Spain.

According to A & E Biography, there is also a belief among some Russians that Stalin himself murdered his wife after the quarrel, which apparently took place at a dinner in which Stalin tauntingly flicked cigarettes across the table at her.

According to another account, Goebbels shot his wife and then took his own life by shooting himself.

According to William Seale, he took several slaves with him to Washington to serve at the White House from 1817 to 1825.

According to the Annales Cracovienses Compilati, this event took place in 1136 ; since it can be assumed that the Polish princess was younger than her betrothed, and also are known the birth dates of the youngest children of Bolesław III ( Agnes in 1137 and Casimir in 1138 ), Judith in consequence could have been born between 1130 and 1135.

According to another legend, Jadwiga took a piece of jewelry from her foot and gave it to a poor stonemason who had begged for her help.