Commentary for Yoma 104:16

לעולם במקדש שני ומאי הגיע לארון מקום ארון והא קתני נתן את המחתה לבין שני הבדים אימא כבין שני הבדים

the staff of Aaron,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XVII, 25.');">²⁰</span> with its almonds and blossoms, and the chest which the Philistines had sent as a gift to the God of Israel, as it is said: And put the jewels of gold which you return to Him for a guilt-offering in a coffer by th side thereof and send it away that it may go.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Sam. VI, 8. Hence it is evident that it was placed together with the Ark and the fear was justified that together with the latter these things might be exiled and lost.');">²¹</span>

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