Deuteronomy 10:1–8

Moses Receives the Commandments Again

10“Then the Lord said to me, ‘Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and make a wooden box to put them in. Come up to me on the mountain, ²and I will write on those tablets what I wrote on the tablets that you broke, and then you are to put them in the box.’

³“So I made a box of acacia wood and cut two stone tablets like the first ones and took them up the mountain. ⁴Then the Lord wrote on those tablets the same words that he had written the first time, the Ten Commandments that he gave you when he spoke from the fire on the day you were gathered at the mountain. The Lord gave me the tablets, ⁵and I turned and went down the mountain. Then, just as the Lord had commanded, I put them in the box that I had made—and they have been there ever since.”

^6*(The Israelites set out from the wells that belonged to the people of Jaakan, and went to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and his son Eleazar succeeded him as priest. ⁷From there they went to Gudgodah and then on to Jotbathah, a well-watered place. ^8*At the mountain^j the Lord appointed the men of the tribe of Levi to be in charge of the Covenant Box, to serve him as priests, and to pronounce blessings in his name. And these are still their duties.