Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

He gave Moses two tablets of testimony when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, tablets of stone written by the finger of God.

Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands. The tablets were written on both sides – they were written on the front and on the back.

Now at the end of the forty days and nights the Lord presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.”

So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

Bind them on your forearm; write them on the tablet of your heart.

The Lord said to Moses, “Cut out two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed.

You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you on the mountain, so they must make it.

I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down, and shattered them before your very eyes.

Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

The Lord responded: “Write down this message! Record it legibly on tablets, so the one who announces it may read it easily.

So Moses cut out two tablets of stone like the first; early in the morning he went up to Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made the altar hollow, out of boards.

And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, writing them on two stone tablets.

So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

At that same time the Lord said to me, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.

Then I turned, went down the mountain, and placed the tablets into the ark I had made – they are still there, just as the Lord commanded me.

He engraved ornamental cherubs, lions, and palm trees on the plates of the supports and frames wherever there was room, with wreaths all around.