1. At that time the Lord said to me, Cut two stone tablets like the first ones 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.
4. The Lord then wrote on the tablets, as he had written before, the ten words 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. There they have remained, as the Lord commanded me.
6. The Israelites set out from Beeroth Bene-jaakan for Moserah; Aaron died there and was buried. His son Eleazar succeeded him as priest.
7. From there they set out for Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah for Jotbathah, a region where there is water in the wadies.
8. At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister to him, and to bless in his name, as they have done to this day.
9. For this reason, Levi has no hereditary portion with his relatives; the Lord himself is his portion, as the Lord, your God, promised him.
10. Meanwhile I stayed on the mountain as I did before, forty days and forty nights, and once again the Lord listened to me. The Lord was unwilling to destroy you.