Deuteronomy 10:1–11

¹At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood. ²And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to place them in the ark.”

³So I made an ark of acacia wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands. ⁴And the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments^a that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me, ⁵and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD had commanded me; and there they have remained.

⁶The Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-jaakan^b to Moserah, where Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest. ⁷From there they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.

⁸At 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 serve Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name, as they do to this day. ⁹That is why Levi has no portion or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God promised him.

¹⁰I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.

¹¹Then the LORD said to me, “Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”