Deuteronomy 10:1–8

New Tablets of Stone

10“At that time the Lord said to me, ^l‘Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain and ^mmake an ark of wood. ²And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and ⁿyou shall put them in the ark.’ ³So I made an ark ^oof acacia wood, and ^pcut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. ⁴And ^qhe wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments^{1 r}that the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire ^son the day of the assembly. And the Lord gave them to me. ⁵Then I turned and ^tcame down from the mountain and ^uput the tablets in the ark that I had made. ^vAnd there they are, as the Lord commanded me.”

⁶(The people of Israel ^wjourneyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan² to Moserah. ^xThere Aaron died, and there he was buried. And his son Eleazar ministered as priest in his place. ^7yFrom there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with brooks of water. ⁸At that time ^zthe Lord set apart the tribe of Levi ^ato carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord ^bto stand before the Lord to minister to him and ^cto bless in his name, to this day.