Ki Tisa (Exodus) 30:11...

1st Aliya

HaShem spoke to Moses, saying:
 

After the sin of the Golden Calf, HaShem commanded Moshe to take a census of the Israelites. This can be understood with a parable; A man had a flock of sheep and disease struck them, causing a number of them to die. After the disease was cured the shepherd said, "I would like to count my sheep to how many survived

Ki Tisa (Exodus) 31:18...

2nd Aliya

When He had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moshe the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with the finger of G-d.

The Tablets are called "Tablets of Stone" for many reasons. A stone can be used as a weight; although it is constantly used, it does not wear out. Similarly a person must make their jaw like a stone, although they learn without rest, they should not become weary in the study of Torah.

Ki Tisa (Exodus) 33:12...

3rd Aliya

Moshe said HaShem, "See, You say to me: 'Take this people onward,' but You did not informed me whom You will send with me; and You had said, 'I shall know you by name, and you have also found favor in My eyes.'
 

Moshe said to HaShem, "You should not remove Your lone for them for even a moment. I see that You have rebuked me because I removed myself from them. You told me to return to the camp. You love them so much that You told me to raise up these people, but You did not tell me whom You would send with me.

Ki Tisa (Exodus) 33:17...

4th Aliya

HaShem said to Moshe: "Even this thing that you have spoken, I will do, for you have found favor in My eyes, and I have known you by name."

"You requested that the spirit of prophecy not rest on other nations. I will grant this, because you have found favor in My eyes. I will also know you by name; I will grant you a great reputation."

Ki Tisa (Exodus) 34:1...

5th Aliya

HaShem said to Moshe: "Crave for yourself two stone Tablets like the first ones, and I shall inscribe upon the Tablets the words that were on the first Tablets, which you shattered.

HaShem told Moshe, "Since you broke the first Tablets it is only right that you make the second Tablets of Stone. I will write the same Words on them that were on the first Tablets, which you broke." HaShem then showed Moshe a large sapphire in his tent and said, "Make the Tablets out of it. What is left over after the Tablets of Stone are carved the remains is a gift to you."

Ki Tisa (Exodus) 34:10...

6th Aliya

He said: "Behold! I seal a covenant; before your entire people, I shall make distinctions such as have never been created in the entire world and among all the nations; and the entire people among you will see the work HaShem--which is awesome--that I am about to do with you.

HaShem promised Moshe that hordes of righteous people would descend from him. When the Israelites would go into exile and sit by the rivers of Babylon. HaShem told Moshe that He would do miracles before all of Moshe's people. He would separate Moshe's descendants, placing them on the other side of the river Sambation. Miracles such as these were never again performed in all the world among the any nation. All the world thus see how fearsome G-d's deeds are. They would see what awe-inspiring deeds G-d was doing with Moshe and the Israelites.

Ki Tisa (Exodus) 34:27...

7th Aliya

HaShem said to Moshe: "Write these words for yourself, for according to these words have I sealed a covenant with you and with Israel."

HaShem said to Moshe, "With the giving of the first Tablets of Stone you wrote a book of the covenant. This book contained the entire account from creation until the giving of the Torah. It was read so that all the people could hear it. The people responded to it, 'We will do and we will listen'. Do the same with the second Tablets, repeating everything that you did.". This is the meaning of G-d's commandment, "Write for yourself these words."  
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