Deuteronomy 10:1–8

Tablets Like the First Ones

10At that time the Lord said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets^w like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark.^{a 2}I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the ark.”^x

³So I made the ark out of acacia wood^y and chiseled^z out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands. ⁴The Lord wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments^a he had proclaimed^b to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.^c And the Lord gave them to me. ⁵Then I came back down the mountain^d and put the tablets in the ark^e I had made,^f as the Lord commanded me, and they are there now.^g

⁶(The Israelites traveled from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah.^h There Aaron diedⁱ and was buried, and Eleazar^j his son succeeded him as priest.^{k 7}From there they traveled to Gudgodah and on to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.^{l 8}At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi^m to carry the ark of the covenantⁿ of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister^o and to pronounce blessings^p in his name, as they still do today.^q