Deuteronomy 10:1–8

The Tablets Rewritten

¹“At that time the Lord said to me, ‘^aCut out for yourself two tablets of stone like the former ones, and come up to Me on the mountain, and ^bmake an ark of wood for yourself.

²‘^aI will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered, and ^byou shall put them in the ark.’

³“So ^aI made an ark of acacia wood and ^bcut out two tablets of stone like the former ones, and went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

⁴“He wrote on the tablets, like the former writing, ^athe Ten ¹Commandments ^bwhich the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire ^con the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me.

⁵“Then I turned and ^acame down from the mountain and ^bput the tablets in the ark which I had made; ^cand there they are, as the Lord commanded me.”

⁶(Now the sons of Israel set out from ¹Beeroth ^aBene-jaakan to Moserah. ^bThere Aaron died and there he was buried and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his place.

^7aFrom there they set out to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.

^8aAt that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord ^bto serve Him and to bless in His name until this day.