He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets.

There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

These are the commandments the Lord proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire.

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.

The Lord gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the commandments the Lord proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.

At the end of the forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

Tablets Like the First Ones

At that time the Lord said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark.

So I made the ark out of acacia wood and chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.

Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

and do not erect a sacred stone, for these the Lord your God hates.

take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death.

Do not move your neighbor’s boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.

she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.

you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.

When you have crossed the Jordan into the land the Lord your God is giving you, set up some large stones and coat them with plaster.

And when you have crossed the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I command you today, and coat them with plaster.

Build there an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool on them.

And you shall write very clearly all the words of this law on these stones you have set up.”

“Cursed is anyone who moves their neighbor’s boundary stone.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.

Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.

You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold.