15 Then Moses turned and ^awent down from the mountain with the two ^btablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written ^con both sides; on the front and on the back they were written. 16 ^dThe tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

Moses Makes New Tablets

1 The Lord said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and ^lI will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, ^mwhich you broke.

27 And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 So he was there with the Lord ^wforty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ^xTen Commandments.¹