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 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 the Book of Mormon, a man named Mormon compiled nearly 1000 years of writings as well as chronicled events during his lifetime.

According to Smith, the angel was the guardian of the golden plates, which Latter Day Saints believe were the source material for the Book of Mormon, buried in a hill near Smith's home in western New York.

According to the Book of Mormon, Moroni was the son of Mormon, the prophet for whom the Book of Mormon is ostensibly named.

According to the Book of Mormon, the Book of Ether was taken from a set of twenty-four plates written by Ether and discovered by the people of Limhi during the time of King Mosiah ( son of King Benjamin ).

According to the text, it is a comment inserted by the prophet Mormon while compiling the records which became the Book of Mormon.

According to Latter-day Saint belief, Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from an ancient language.

According to the Book of Mormon, Zedekiah's son Mulek escaped death and travelled across one of the oceans ( Atlantic or Pacific ) to the Americas, where he founded a nation that later merged with another Israelite splinter group, the Nephites.

According to the Book of Mormon, a religious text of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Nephite () is a member of one of the four main groups of settlers of the ancient Americas.

According to the Book of Mormon, Lamanites are " a lazy and idolatrous people " (), and " wild, and ferocious, and a blood-thirsty people.

According to the Book of Mormon, that scripture of the Latter Day Saint movement was originally written in reformed Egyptian characters on plates of " ore " by prophets living in the Western Hemisphere from perhaps as early as 2600 BC until as late as AD 421.

According to Mormon belief, Zion is a place where the pure in heart live.

According to Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Jr., Adam-ondi-Ahman, situated in the central part of the county, was where Adam and Eve relocated after being banished from the Garden of Eden.

According to the text, the first seven chapters were written by the prophet Mormon and the last two by his son Moroni.

According to Mormon records he was the son of Kashe Bats and Wah Goots.

According to Mormon scholar John Welch:

According to the church, “ The standard doctrine of the church is monogamy, as it always has been, as indicated in The Book of Mormon ( Jacob chapter 2 ): “ Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife ; and concubines he shall have none.

According to KSS's 1837 " Articles of Agreement ", it was intended to serve the banking needs of the growing Mormon community in Kirtland, Ohio.

According to the Book of Mormon, a Lamanite () is a member of a dark-skinned nation of indigenous Americans that battled with the light-skinned Nephite nation.

According to the Book of Mormon, the family of Lehi ( a wealthy Hebrew prophet ), the family of Ishmael, and Zoram traveled from the Middle East circa 600 BC to the Americas by boat.

According to the Jargon File, American hackers switched to what they later discovered to be the British quotation system because placing a period inside a quotation mark can change the meaning of data strings that are meant to be typed character-for-character.

According to some interpretations, the concept of ahimsa as expounded in the scriptures and law books is not meant to imply pacifism ; war is seen as a normal part of life and the natural duty of the warriors.

According to the Fundamento, Mi ŝatas ĉi tiun would in fact have meant " I esteem this one ".

According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

According to the Bauer-Danker Lexicon, the noun ίδιωτής in ancient Greek meant " civilian " ( ref Josephus Bell 2 178 ), " private citizen " ( ref sb 3924 9 25 ), " private soldier as opposed to officer ," ( Polybius 1. 69 ), " relatively unskilled, not clever ," ( Herodotus 2, 81 and 7 199 ).

According to the Marxist historian, Walter Rodney, imperialism meant capitalist expansion.

According to Jewish tradition, God gave both the Written Law ( Torah ) and the Oral Law ( additional laws and customs meant to be passed down from teacher to student ) to Moses on Mount Sinai.

According to Agassiz genera and species were ideas in the mind of God, their existence in God ’ s mind prior to their physical creation meant that God could create human as one species yet in several distinct and geographically separate acts of creation.

According to Richard Jeffrey, " Before the middle of the seventeenth century, the term ' probable ' ( Latin probabilis ) meant approvable, and was applied in that sense, univocally, to opinion and to action.

According to Bushell, " Punk was meant to be of the voice of the dole queue, and in reality most of them were not.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, psychotherapy first meant " hypnotherapy " instead of " psychotherapy ".

According to the Quran, a married Muslim couple, both husband and wife act as each other ’ s protector and comforter and are therefore only meant " for one another ".

According to Ono, the work was meant to be innocent, not shocking.

According to SWIFT's public information database on the subject, RMA software should eventually prove more secure and easier to keep up-to-date ; however, converting to the RMA system meant that thousands of banks around the world had to update their international payments systems to comply with the new standards.

According to Maureen Rhoden, this effectively meant that the development control system operated by local authorities ‘ policed ’ new housing demand.

According to Navy veteran Sho Mitani, ' The Army used a trumpet sound that meant " Kill all Chinese who run away "'.

According to Granatstein, this meant that Canada was not able to live up to its post-Cold War military commitments.

Through his language, he tends to characterize Rome as “ masculine ” and Egypt as “ feminine .” According to Gayle Greene, “ the ‘ feminine ’ world of love and personal relationships is secondary to the ‘ masculine ’ world of war and politics, has kept us from realizing that Cleopatra is the play ’ s protagonist, and so skewed our perceptions of character, theme, and structure .” The highlighting of these starkly contrasting qualities of the two backdrops of Antony and Cleopatra, in both Shakespeare ’ s language and the words of critics, brings attention to the characterization of the title characters, since their respective countries are meant to represent and emphasize their attributes.

According to Roman sources, in the Etruscan language the word " capys " meant ' hawk ' or ' falcon ' ( or possibly ' eagle ' or ' vulture ').

According to Savarkar, Hindutva is meant to denote the Hindu characteristic, or Hinduness.

According to one view, some scholars misinterpreted the word koti-which is meant to mean " class ", claiming that there are 330 million gods within Hinduism.

According to his friend and fellow-student, Cassiodorus, although by birth a " Scythian ", Dionysius was in character a true Roman and a thorough Catholic, most learned in both tongues ( by which he meant Greek and Latin ), and an accomplished Scripturist.

According to Annemarie Schimmel " compared to the pre-Islamic position of women, Islamic legislation meant an enormous progress ; the woman has the right, at least according to the letter of the law, to administer the wealth she has brought into the family or has earned by her own work.

( According to them, the asylum's walls are meant to keep the * real * mad people * outside *, while the inmates stay inside and safe.

According to Medak, the project got started one night that he and O ' Toole were returning from the theatre, which " meant stopping at every pub between Soho and Hampstead, and it didn't matter if it was after closing hour because he would knock on the door and just say ' Peter's here ,' and every door opened for him "; Later on, at O ' Toole's apartment, the deeply inebriated actor phoned his manager and said, " I'm with the crazy Hungarian and I know I'm drunk but I give you 24 hours to set this movie up.