Chapter 10

^1 (A)At that time the Lord said to me, Cut two stone tablets like the first ones^(B) and come up the mountain to me. Also make an ark out of wood. ² I will write upon the tablets the words that were on the tablets that you broke, and you shall place them in the ark. ³ So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.^{(C) 4 (D)}The Lord then wrote on the tablets, as he had written before, the ten words^[a] that the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me. ⁵ Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and placed the tablets in the ark I had made.^(E) There they have remained, as the Lord commanded me.

^20 (A)He took the covenant and put it in the ark; he placed poles alongside the ark and set the cover upon it.

^9 (A)There was nothing in the ark but the two stone tablets which Moses had put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they went forth from the land of Egypt.