3-5 So I made a chest out of acacia wood, shaped two slabs of stone, just like the first ones, and climbed the mountain with the two slabs in my arms. He engraved the stone slabs the same as he had the first ones, the Ten Words that he addressed to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. Then God gave them to me. I turned around and came down the mountain. I put the stone slabs in the Chest that I made and they’ve been there ever since, just as God commanded me.

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So I made the ark out of acacia wood(A) and chiseled(B) out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands. The Lord wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments(C) he had proclaimed(D) to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.(E) And the Lord gave them to me. Then I came back down the mountain(F) and put the tablets in the ark(G) I had made,(H) as the Lord commanded me, and they are there now.(I)

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