I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down,<n id="1" /> and shattered them before your very eyes.

<p class="bodytext">So I turned and went down the mountain while it<n id="1" /> was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

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.

I thought this was a good idea,<n id="1" /> so I sent<n id="2" /> twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.

So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon<n id="1" />

And he revealed to you the covenant<n id="1" /> he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments,<n id="2" /> writing them on two stone tablets.

They possessed his land and that of King Og of Bashan &#8211; both of whom were Amorite kings in the Transjordan, to the east.

Now at the end of the forty days and nights the <sc>Lordsc> presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

<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" />

You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.<n id="1" />

At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

then both parties to the controversy must stand before the <sc>Lordsc>, that is, before the priests and judges<n id="1" /> who will be in office in those days.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other,<n id="1" /> and they both<n id="2" /> bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.

You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute<n id="1" /> or the wage of a male prostitute<n id="2" /> into the temple of the <sc>Lordsc> your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the <sc>Lordsc> your God.p>

<p class="poetry">How can one man chase a thousand of them,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and two pursue ten thousand;p> <p class="poetry">unless their Rock had delivered them up,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and the <sc>Lordsc> had handed them over?p>

I also commanded Joshua at the same time, &#8220;You have seen everything the <sc>Lordsc> your God did to these two kings; he<n id="1" /> will do the same to all the kingdoms where you are going.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said.<n id="1" /> Then he inscribed the words<n id="2" /> on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

The <sc>Lordsc> gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger<n id="1" /> of God, and on them was everything<n id="2" /> he<n id="3" /> said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.

<p class="bodytext">A single witness may not testify<n id="1" /> against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established<n id="2" /> only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved<n id="1" /> wife as firstborn and give him the double portion<n id="2" /> of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father&#8217;s procreative power<n id="3" /> &#8211; to him should go the right of the firstborn.p>