When God confirmed his law to men

When God confirmed his law to men,
Through Israel's waiting flock,
He spake aloud his precepts ten,
And graved them in the rock.

Within the tent's most holy place
That sacred law was brought,
Nor can the hand of man efface
What great Jehovah wrought.

But God well knew perdition's son
Would ne'er his precepts love;
He gave a duplicate alone,
And kept his own above.

There in the tabernacle true,
Pitched not by hands of men,
The sacred law is kept in view,
The holy precepts ten.