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The Tablets of Law are the two pieces of stone onto which God inscribed the Ten Commandments with His finger, according to the Biblical passages in Exodus. The Tablets were then carried by the prophet Moses down from Mount Sinai and placed into the Ark of the Covenant. Exodus 31:18 further refers to the tablets as the "Tablets of Testimony" because they give insight into the nature of God, and they have also been known as the "Tables of Law".
Replicas of the Tablets, known as tabots or sellats, are a vital part of the practice of Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
That church claims to possess the original Ark of the Covenant in the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum.
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