10 After that, Yahweh told me, “Carve out two stone tablets like the first ones, and make a wooden chest to put them in, then come up to me on the mountain. 2 I’ll write the words onto the tablets that were on the first tablets that you broke, then you can put them into the box.”

3 So I made a box from acacia wood, and I carved out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up the mountain carrying the two tablets 4 and he wrote the ten instructions on the tablets like the first time—the same words that Yahweh had spoken to you from the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly. Then he gave me the tablets 5 and I turned and went down the mountain. I put the tablets into the box that I’d made, just like Yahweh had told me to.

6 Then the Israelis travelled from Be’erot-Beney-Ya’akan[fn] to Moserah[fn] where Aharon (Aaron) died. He was buried there, and his son Eleazar replaced him as chief priest.[ref] 7 From there they moved on to Gudgodah, then from there onto Yotvatah—an area with many streams. 8 At that time, Yahweh chose the Levi tribe to carry the box containing Yahweh’s agreement, and to stand in Yahweh’s presence to serve and worship him, until this day.[ref] 9 That’s why the Levites didn’t receive land in the same way as the other tribes as Yahweh told them that he is their inheritance. 10 I myself stayed up on the mountain for forty days and nights just like the first time.[ref] Yahweh listened to me that time as well, and said that he wouldn’t destroy you. 11 Then Yahweh told me, “Continue your journey leading the people to enter and occupy the land that I promised their ancestors that I’d give them.