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.
At that time the Lord said unto me. It was when God had been pacified, through the intercessions of Moses, with the people who had so greatly offended Him by the worship of the golden calf, the obedient leader executed the orders he had received as to the preparation both of the hewn stones and the ark or chest in which those sacred archives were to be laid.