<t /><p class="bodytext">At that same time the <sc>Lordsc> said to me, &#8220;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.<n id="1" />

So I made an ark of acacia<n id="1" /> 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.

Solomon&#8217;s and Hiram&#8217;s construction workers,<n id="1" /> along with men from Byblos,<n id="2" /> did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">What good<n id="1" /> is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Why would its creator place his trust in it<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and make<n id="5" /> such mute, worthless things?p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Cut out<n id="2" /> two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write<n id="3" /> on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed.

So Moses<n id="1" /> cut out two tablets of stone like the first;<n id="2" /> early in the morning he went up<n id="3" /> to Mount Sinai, just as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.p>