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"At that time the LORD said to me, '^(C1)Cut out for yourself two tablets of stone like the first two, and come up to Me on the mountain, and ^(C2)make an ^(F1)ark of wood for yourself.

'Then ^(C1)I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you smashed to pieces, and ^(C2)you shall put them in the ark.'

"So ^(C1)I made an ark of acacia wood and ^(C2)cut out two tablets of stone like the first two, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

"Then He wrote on the tablets, like the first writing, ^(C1)the Ten ^(F1)Commandments ^(C2)which the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire ^(C3)on the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me.

"Then I turned and ^(C1)came down from the mountain, and I ^(C2)put the tablets in the ark which I had made; ^(C3)and they are there, just as the LORD commanded me."

(Now the sons of Israel set out from ^(F1)Beeroth ^(C1)Bene-jaakan to Moserah. ^(C2)There Aaron died and there he was buried, and his son Eleazar served as priest in his place.

^(C1)From there they set out to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of streams of water.

^(C1)At that time the LORD singled out the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD ^(C2)to serve Him and to bless in His name, until this day.

^(C1)Therefore, Levi does not have a portion or inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, just as the LORD your God spoke to him.)

"^(C1)I, moreover, stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights like the first time, and the LORD listened to me that time also; the LORD was not willing to destroy you.

"Then the LORD said to me, 'Arise, proceed on your journey ahead of the people, so that they may go in and take possession of the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.'