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Hor and Nob, where Moses and Aaron were buried[1], but whether it will ever
- ↑ Some Judaizing Christian invented this legend, which is given with varying but finer circumstances by Dorotheus, thus:
"Before the temple was taken, this prophet (Jeremiah) took out the Ark of the Covenant, and all that was laid up therein, and hid it in a certain rock, saying unto such as were present, the Lord from Sinai is gone up into Heaven, and again, the law-giver shall come out of Sion with great power, and the signs of his coming shall be unto you, when all nations shall honour a tree. He said, moreover, to man shall take away that Ark except Aaron; and no man shall see the tables laid up therein, be he priest or prophet, except Moses, the chosen of God. And at the Resurrection the Ark shall first rise, and come forth out of the rock, and it shall be laid on Mount Sinai, and thither unto it will all the Saints assemble together, looking for the Lord, and flying from the enemy which would have destroyed them, coming unto this rock. And he sealed up this rock with his finger, writing thereon the name of God; the form of it was like the engraving of iron, and a light cloud overshadowed and covered the name of God; neither knew any man this place, neither could any man read the sealing unto this day, neither shall unto the end. This rock is in the desart where the Ark was made at the first, between
