1 At that time Yahweh said to me, “Cut
two stone tablets like thefirst, and comeup
to me onto the mountain, and make an ark
of wood.

2 I will write on the tablets the words that
were on the first tablets which you broke,
and you shall put them in the ark.”

3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and
cut two stone tablets like the first, and
went up onto the mountain, having the
two tablets in my hand.

4 He wrote on the tablets, according to
the first writing, the ten commandments,
which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day
of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to
me.

5 I turned and came down from the
mountain, and put the tablets in the ark
which I had made; and there they are as
Yahweh commanded me.

6 (The children of Israel traveled from
Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There
Aaron died, and there he was buried; and
Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s
office in his place.

7 From there they traveled to Gudgodah;
and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of
brooks of water.

8 At that time Yahweh set apart the
tribe of Levi to bear the ark of Yahweh’s
covenant, to stand before Yahweh to minister tohim, andtobless inhisname,to this
day.

9 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is
his inheritance, according as Yahweh your
God spoke to him.)

10 I stayed on the mountain, as atthe first
time, forty days and forty nights; and Yahweh listened to me that time also. Yahweh
would not destroy you.

11 Yahweh said to me, “Arise, take your
journey before the people; and they shall
go in and possess the land which I swore
to their fathers to give to them.”