Deuteronomy 10:1–8

The Second Pair of Tablets

10“At that time the Lord said to me, ¹‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an ^aark of wood. ²And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and ^byou shall put them in the ark.’

³“So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. ⁴And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten ²Commandments, ^cwhich the Lord had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me. ⁵Then I turned and ^dcame down from the mountain, and ^eput the tablets in the ark which I had made; ^fand there they are, just as the Lord commanded me.”

⁶(Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron ^gdied, and where he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his ³stead. ^7hFrom there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of ⁴rivers of water. ⁸At that time ⁱthe Lord ⁵separated the tribe of Levi ^jto bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, ^kto stand before the Lord to minister to Him and ^lto bless in His name, to this day.