¹³ He proclaimed to you his covenant, which he commanded you to keep: the ten words,^[a] which he wrote on two stone tablets.^(A)

⁹ when I had gone up the mountain to receive the stone tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you.^(A) Meanwhile I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no food and drank no water. ¹⁰ The Lord gave me the two stone tablets inscribed, by God’s own finger,^(B) with a copy of all the words that the Lord spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. ¹¹ Then, at the end of the forty days and forty nights, when the Lord had given me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant,

¹⁷ I took hold of the two tablets and with both hands cast them from me and broke them before your eyes.^(A)

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^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.

Moses on the Mountain. ¹² The Lord said to Moses: Come up to me on the mountain and, while you are there, I will give you the stone tablets^(A) on which I have written the commandments intended for their instruction.

¹⁸ When the Lord had finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant, the stone tablets inscribed by God’s own finger.^(A)

¹⁵ Moses then turned and came down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hands,^(A) tablets that were written on both sides, front and back. ¹⁶ The tablets were made by God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.^{(B) 17} Now, when Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “That sounds like a battle in the camp.” ¹⁸ But Moses answered,

¹⁹ As he drew near the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger burned, and he threw the tablets down and broke them on the base of the mountain.^{(C) 20} Taking the calf they had made, he burned it in the fire and then ground it down to powder, which he scattered on the water^[a] and made the Israelites drink.^(D)

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Renewal of the Tablets. ¹ The Lord said to Moses: “Cut two stone tablets like the former,^(A) that I may write on them the words^[a] which were on the former tablets that you broke. ² Get ready for tomorrow morning, when you are to go up Mount Sinai and there present yourself to me on the top of the mountain. ³ No one shall come up with you, and let no one even be seen on any part of the mountain;^(B) even the sheep and the cattle are not to graze in front of this mountain.” ⁴ Moses then cut two stone tablets like the former, and early the next morning he went up Mount Sinai as the Lord had commanded him, taking in his hand the two stone tablets.

⁵ The Lord came down in a cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name, “Lord.”