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Exodus 34: 1, "And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon [these] tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
Joseph Smith added new information when he did the Inspired Translation (JST) of the Bible, both in Exodus and in Deuteronomy. The JST changes are in italics.
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JST Exodus 34:1–2
1 And the Lord said
unto Moses, Hew thee two other tables of stone, like unto the first, and I will
write upon them also, the words of the law, according as they were written at
the first on the tables which thou brakest; but it shall not be according to the
first, for I will take away the priesthood out of their midst; therefore my
holy order, and the ordinances thereof, shall not go before them; for my
presence shall not go up in their midst, lest I destroy them.
2 But I will give
unto them the law as at the first, but it shall be after the law of a carnal
commandment; for I have sworn in my wrath, that they shall not enter into my
presence, into my rest, in the days of their pilgrimage. Therefore do as I have
commanded thee, and be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto
mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me, in the top of the mount.
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JST Deuteronomy 10:1-4 At that time the LORD said unto me,
Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the
mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
2. And I will write
on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, save
the words of the everlasting covenant of the holy priesthood, and thou
shalt put them in the ark.
3. And I made an ark [of] shittim wood, and hewed two tables
of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables
in mine hand.
4. And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten
commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of
the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto
John A. Tvedtnes has written an excellent article about this called "The Higher and Lesser Laws"; it is available at the Neal A Maxwell Institute Website (aka FARMS).
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