Ark of the Covenant

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• proper noun The sacred container, a gold-plated wooden chest, of the two tablets of law (the Ten Commandments) given to Moses by the Hebrew God.

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• noun (Judaism) sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments