“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. ²And 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.’ ³And 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. ⁴And 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. ⁵And 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. ⁷From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land flowing with streams of water. ⁸At 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.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “of wood of acacia trees”
bLiterally “as the writing the first”
cLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
dLiterally “the faces of”