“At that time Yahweh said to me, ‘Carve for yourself two tablets of stone just as the former ones, and come up the mountain to me, and you shall make for yourself an ark of wood. 2 And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you smashed, and you must put them in the ark.’ 3 And so I made an ark ⌊of acacia wood⌋,a and I carved two tablets of stone like the former ones, and I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. 4 And he wrote upon the tablets ⌊according to the first writing⌋,b the ten words that Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly, and Yahweh gave them to me. 5 And I turned, and I came down from the mountain, and I put the tablets in the ark that I had made, and they are there, just as Yahweh commanded me.

6 “And the ⌊Israelites⌋c journeyed from the wells of Bene-Yaqan to Moserah; there Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar, his son, served as a priest in place of him. 7 From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land flowing with streams of water. 8 At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to stand ⌊before⌋d Yahweh, to serve him and to bless the people in his name until this day. 9 Therefore ⌊there was not⌋e for Levi an allotment or an inheritance along with his brothers; rather Yahweh is his inheritance just as Yahweh your God ⌊promised⌋f to him.

10 And I stayed on the mountain just as during the former forty daysg and forty nights,h and Yahweh listened to me also on that occasion;i Yahweh was not willing to destroy you. 11 And Yahweh said to me, ‘⌊Come, continue⌋j your journey ⌊before the people⌋, k so that you may go and take possession of the land that I swore to their ancestorsl to give to them.’