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Ark of the Covenant: Mind boggling mystery of the World

New Delhi: The Ark of the Covenant, also known as the Ark of the Testimony, is a chest described in the Book of Exodus as containing the Tablets of Stone on which the Ten Commandments



Spiritually, the Ark was the manifestation of God's physical presence on earth. When God spoke with Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the desert, he did so from between the two Cherubs. 



Once the Ark was moved into the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle, and later in the Temple, it was accessible only once a year, and then, only by one person.  

On Yom Kippur, the High Priest (Kohen Gadol) could enter the Holy of Holies to ask forgiveness for himself and for all the nation of Israel.

The Ark remained in the Temple until its destruction at the hand of the Babylonian empire, led by Nebuchadnezzar.

What happened to it afterward is unknown, and has been debated and pondered for centuries. It is unlikely that the Babylonians took it, as they did the other vessels of the Temple, because the detailed lists of what they took make no mention of the Ark.  

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