Exodus 16:34

Just as the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony ¹  for safekeeping. ² 

Ex 25:16,21; Ex 27:21; Ex 30:6,36; Ex 31:18; Ex 38:21; Ex 40:20; Nu 1:50,53; Nu 17:10; De 10:5; 1Ki 8:9

¹ sn The “Testimony” is a reference to the Ark of the Covenant; so the pot of manna would be placed before Yahweh in the tabernacle. W. C. Kaiser says that this later instruction came from a time after the tabernacle had been built (see Exod 25:10-22; W. C. Kaiser, Jr., “Exodus,” EBC 2:405). This is not a problem since the final part of this chapter had to have been included at the end of the forty years in the desert.

² tn “for keeping.”