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)

²⁸ Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights^(A) without eating bread or drinking water.^(B) And he wrote on the tablets^(C) the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.^(D)

⁹ When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant^(A) that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days^(B) and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.^{(C) 10} The Lord gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God.^(D) On them were all the commandments the Lord proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.^(E)

¹¹ At the end of the forty days and forty nights,^(F) the Lord gave me the two stone tablets,^(G) the tablets of the covenant.