When was the Covenant box made?

[visionary]

According to Exodus 25:16 God ordered Moses to keep the two Ten Commandments tablets in the Ark of Covenant. Yet Exodus 40:16 and 40:20 have it that in the second year first day of the first month Moses set up a tent and placed the Covenant box with the two tablets of Ten Commandments. So can we say that the Covenant box was not made until the first day of first month of the second year of their wandering.

 

[R. Hartono]

The ten commandments unfortunately was not written in the hearts of the rebelling Jews where one generation was not allowed to go to the promised land for their iniquities.

 

[Heber Book List]

In Ex 25:10ff Moses is instructed to make the ark by G_d.

"The Ark
10 “Have them make an ark of acacia wood—two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. 11 Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it. 12 Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other. 13 Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 14 Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it. 15 The poles are to remain in the rings of this ark; they are not to be removed. 16 Then put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law, which I will give you.

17 “Make an atonement cover of pure gold—two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. 18 And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover. 19 Make one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other; make the cherubim of one piece with the cover, at the two ends. 20 The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward, overshadowing the cover with them. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the cover. 21 Place the cover on top of the ark and put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law that I will give you. 22 There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the covenant law, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites."
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In Ex 25:16 G_d says he will give Moses the Covenant - future tense, repeated in vs. 21-22.

The other two readings you mention are the outworking of those instructions to Moses. Whether the date is simply the date G_d gave Moses the tablets OR the date that shows how long it took to make the Tabernacle, is not clear.

 

[pat34lee]

The ten commandments unfortunately was not written in the hearts of the rebelling Jews where one generation was not allowed to go to the promised land for their iniquities.

It still isn't in anyone's heart today, or we wouldn't have
sin rampant in the churches (the organizations).

 

[Meowzltov]

It still isn't in anyone's heart today, or we wouldn't have
sin rampant in the churches (the organizations).

This is true. It is because believers still sin that they create the scandals in their churches.