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behind the second curtain

The first curtain was the outer wall of the tabernacle, so the "second curtain" was the curtain between the "holy place" and the "most holy place".

Inside it

"Inside the ark of the covenant"

budded

"flowered" or "sprouted" or "grew and developed"

stone tablet

A flat piece of stone that had writing on it.

figure

A sculpture that represents the form of something

cherubim hovered over

"cherubim were above"

atonement lid

the top of the ark of the covenant