Chasidut su Esodo 25:21

Exodus 25,21. “and you are to deposit the Testimony ‎inside the ark.” Rashi comments that he does not ‎understand the repetition in this verse since the same instruction ‎had been spelled out already in verse 16 where the Torah wrote: ‎ונתת אל הארון את העדות‎, “you are to deposit (it) inside the ark the ‎Testimony.” He attempts to answer this question by saying that ‎the repetition indicates that the Testimony (Tablets, and Torah ‎scroll) is to be deposited inside the ark even before the ‎construction of the lid, the ‎כפורת‎, details of which have been the ‎subject of verses 17-20. Our author suggests that verse 21 simply ‎explains why anyone removing the staves of the ark from its ‎rings transgresses a negative commandment, i.e. that he would ‎thereby interfere with the sacred contents of the holy ark. ‎‎[The prohibition to remove the staves is an implied ‎warning not to remove any of the contents of the ark, if I ‎understand our author correctly. Ed.]‎