⁷ So Moses went back and summoned the elders^(A) of the people and set before them all the words the Lord had commanded him to speak.^(B)

The Ten Commandments^(A)

20 And God spoke^(B) all these words:^(C)

⁴ Moses then wrote^(A) down everything the Lord had said.

He got up early the next morning and built an altar^(B) at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars^(C) representing the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹² The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone^(A) with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

²¹ Place the cover on top of the ark^(A) and put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law^(B) that I will give you.

¹⁸ When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai,^(A) he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone^(B) inscribed by the finger of God.^(C)

¹⁶ The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.^(A)

² Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai.^(A) Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain.