fter Moses had broken the tablets with God’s commandments on them, God said to him, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write upon them the words that were on the first tablets, that you broke.”

...he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant...

Moses cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and went up to Mount Sinai with them. God came down in a cloud, and God said to Moses, “I will make an agreement: keep the commandments that I give you today, and I will drive out other nations before you.

“Do not make any treaties with those who live in the land you are going into. You must destroy their altars, break their monuments, and cut down their sacred poles. For you shall worship no other god: Yahweh is a jealous god.

“You shall make no gods of cast metal.

“You shall keep the feast of Flatbread. For seven days you shall eat flatbread, as you did when you came out of Egypt.

“Every firstborn belongs to me. The firstborn of your calves and sheep you must give to me. For the firstborn of a donkey you must pay ransom with a lamb, or else break its neck. You must pay ransom for your firstborn sons.

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest, even in plowing time and harvest time.

“You shall celebrate the feast of Weeks at the first wheat harvest, and the feast of Ingathering at the end of the year. Three times a year all of your men must appear before Lord Yahweh, the god of Israel.

“You shall not offer the blood for my sacrifice with leavened bread. And you shall not leave the sacrifice for the feast of Passover until morning.

“You shall bring the best of your first crops to the house of Yahweh, your god.

“You shall not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

God said to Moses, “Write down these words, for with these words I have made an agreement with you and with Israel.”

Moses was there with God for forty days and forty nights, and he neither ate bread nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the agreement, the ten commandments.