TSK · Exodus 25:16

Just as the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony for safekeeping.

“You are to put it in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the testimony(before the atonement lid that is over the testimony), where I will meet you.

He gave Moses two tablets of testimony when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, tablets of stone written by the finger of God.

The Radiant Face of Moses Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand– when he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

You must place them in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant where I meet with you.

Then I turned, went down the mountain, and placed the tablets into the ark I had made– they are still there, just as the LORD commanded me.

There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. It was there that the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

When they took out the silver that had been brought to the LORD’s temple, Hilkiah the priest found the law scroll the LORD had given to Moses.

Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.