Not at all Dave,
The scriptures show you are only telling half the story and you do not know what the OLD COVENANT is. If you do not know what the OLD COVENANT is how can you understand what the NEW COVENANT is about?
The ARK of the COVENANT did indeed contain what the OLD COVENANT was. Let's have a look and see what it contained.
Maybe you do not know the scriptures here?
WHAT LAWS DID THE ARK OF THE COVENANT [HOUSE OF THE COVENANT] CONTAIN?
DEUTERONOMY 10:5 [5] And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and
put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the LORD commanded me.
Yep there is the 10 Commandments housed in the ARK of the COVENANT.
DEUTERONOMY 31:26 [26]
Take this book of the law, and
put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.
Well here you go now Dave can you now see your error here?
EXODUS 24:7 [7] And he took the
BOOK OF THE COVENANT, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD has said will we do, and be obedient.
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CONCLUSION: The ARK [House of the COVENANT] held God's 10 Commandments [2x tables of stone] and the MOSAIC BOOK of the COVENANT (in the side of the ark). Together these made up the OLD COVENANT.
Yep seems like you are only telling half the story here. Can you see your error now?
Hope this helps