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===Ethiopia===
===Ethiopia===
According to another tradition, the Ark may have been removed by the Levites to keep it out of the hands of the idolatrous Israelite King Manasseh, who profaned the Temple by sacrificing to a pagan god (2 Kings 21). The tradition holds that the priests took the Ark with them east towards the Nile, where they erected an actual temple on the island of Elephantine (evidence confirms the existence of such a structure). Later on the Ark was again moved south to Ethiopia, where it resided on an island in Lake Tana for several centuries before being moved once more to Aksum, where it resides in a small chapel today.
[[File:Colmz1.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, Aksum, Ethiopia]]
According to another tradition, the Ark may have been removed by the Levites to keep it out of the hands of the idolatrous Israelite King Manasseh, who profaned the Temple by sacrificing to a pagan god (2 Kings 21). The tradition holds that the priests took the Ark with them east towards the [[Nile River]] in [[Egypt]], where they erected an actual temple on the island of Elephantine (evidence confirms the existence of such a structure). Later the Ark was again moved south to Ethiopia, where it resided on an island in Lake Tana for several centuries before being moved once more to Aksum, where it resides in the small Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion today. The term ''tabat'' refers to a copy of the Ark, which is an object made for individual churches within Ethiopia; the number of these copies gives some protection to the original, if it indeed does exist within Ethiopia.
According to a statement made public by the patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church while visiting [[Rome]], the Ark was to have been revealed to the world on June 26, 2009. In a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI, Patriarch Abuna Pauolos stated "Soon the world will be able to admire the Ark of the Covenant described in the Bible as the container of the tablets of the law that God delivered to Moses and the center of searches and studies for centuries." When the time for the reveal had come and gone, a spokesman for the church said that what the patriach said earlier may have been "a slip [of the] tongue from the patriarch"[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102532].
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