Coffin components:

Ben Uri made the coffin according to the orders of the Prophet Musa (peace be upon him). It consists of three boxes that are open from the top, and each one of these boxes inside the other, where the inner one was made of gold, while the middle only was made of acacia gold, and the outer one was also made of gold.

The upper edge of the coffin is gilded. The coffin’s length is two and a half cubits, and the width is a cubit and a half. The outer edge of the coffin rises from the inner edge. The cover of the camphor coffin is a thick golden plate on which two statues of gold look towards each other. In contrast, the sides of the coffin contain golden rings fixed with two pillars of gilded wood, and an engraving of two cherubim angels (carried by The Throne) was above its summit. The chest cover was called the Atonement Cover or the Mercy Seat.

The Bible says that God inscribed the Ten Commandments on two stone tablets and gave them to the Prophet Moses (peace be upon him) and to protect the two tablets and allow them to be carried, this ark was made and decorated, and the ark accompanied Moses (peace be upon him) and the sons of Israel in their pursuit of the Promised Land. He would bring them victory wherever they went. When they established Jerusalem in the end, and King Solomon built the Holy of Holies of the First Temple, this ark was kept in it.

It was reported the coffin in the Koran specifically in Sura No. (248) In the name of God the Merciful (and told them their prophet that Surely his property that comes to the coffin in which a knife from your Lord, and the rest, leaving Oual Moses and Oual Aaron bear Almlikh in that any you if you are believers) Great truth of God.

The intended king in this verse is King Taloot, and the sign indicating his kingdom was to return the ark of the covenant to the children of Israel, as the ark was missing at this time.

The noble verse also indicates that the ark contains traces left by the family of Moses and the family of Harun, which are great relics, given that the angels carry them as it came in the holy verse, and they likely include the stick of Moses, and this is reasonable because it is one of the tools of the miracle of Moses (peace be upon him)

Miracles attributed to the ark of the covenant

According to the Torah, the ark is linked to many miracles, the first of these miracles the waters of the Jordan flowed out at the moment the Israeli people entered the land of Canaan, and the Torah also talks about miraculous events linked to the ark, such as the fall of the statue of Dagon in front of the ark in Ashdod,

And the plague that afflicted men who did not deal with enough respect with the ark, and the death of Uzah as a result of touching the ark during the migration of the ark to Jerusalem, and other accounts that the Torah narrated about these miracles that accompanied the ark.

One of the hypotheses says that the coffin was smuggled from the Temple to Egypt and was identified as the Well of the Spirits. It is believed that it was transferred from there to an island located on the Nile River, the island of Elephantine, which contains the Temple of Judah. The ark continued its journey to settle in the Church of Mary in the city Exum in Ethiopia.

The Ethiopian Church believed that the ark of the covenant is present in the Church of Mary of Zion in Axum. This sarcophagus was placed under a heavy secret cover, as an old priest was appointed and allowed only to enter to see this ark. It is mentioned that the holder of this position is constantly changed due to their exposure to untold deaths Natural, just as the guards of the coffin claim that the coffin causes them damage. They all gathered that they had poor eyesight as soon as their guards took over the coffin and saw it.

According to the holy writings in Ethiopia, the one who brought the sarcophagus to Ethiopia was Menelik, who shared the lineage with King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and the original copy was the one that was brought to Ethiopia. For this coffin