Tablets Like the First Ones

10 At that time the Lord said to me, “Chisel out two stone tabletsw 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

3 So I made the ark out of acacia woody and chiseledz out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands. 4 The Lord wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandmentsa he had proclaimedb to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.c And the Lord gave them to me. 5 Then I came back down the mountaind and put the tablets in the arke 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 Eleazarj 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 Levim to carry the ark of the covenantn of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to ministero and to pronounce blessingsp in his name, as they still do today.q