Exodus 40:2

• §2058Section Two · The Ten CommandmentsRead at vatican.va

  “These "tables of the Testimony" were to be deposited in "the ark."” — Catechism footnote: Ex 25:16; 31:18; 32:15; 34:29; 40:1-2.

• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 78

  “For even that Tabernacle which was set up with a work so remarkable and full of such wondrous meanings, is named the Tabernacle of Testimony, wherein was the veil over the Ark of the Law, like the veil over the face of the Minister of the Law; because in that dispensation there were “parables and propositions.”” — editor's note: Exod. xl. 2, 3; 2 Cor. iii. 13.

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Parallel passages

• 2 Chronicles 29:17

  Exodus 40:2 and 2 Chronicles 29:17 share the same wording (10 words).

Cited together with

• Deuteronomy 5:22

  Cited together in Catechism §2058.

• Exodus 25:16

  Cited together in Catechism §2058.

• Exodus 31:18

  Cited together in Catechism §2058.

• Exodus 32:15

  Cited together in Catechism §2058.

• Exodus 34:29

  Cited together in Catechism §2058.