“1 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, 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 me. 5 And I turned myself and came down from the
mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they
be, as the LORD commanded me. 6 And the children of Israel took their
journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron
died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the
priest’s office in his stead. 7 From thence they journeyed unto
Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. 8 At
that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the
covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and
to bless in his name, unto this day. 9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor
inheritance with his brethren; the LORD [is] his inheritance, according
as the LORD thy God promised him. 10 And I stayed in the mount,
according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD
hearkened unto me at that time also, [and] the LORD would not destroy
thee. 11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take [thy] journey before the
people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto
their fathers to give unto them.”
“12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but
to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and
to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, 13
To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command
thee this day for thy good? 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of
heavens [is] the LORD’S thy God, the earth [also], with all that therein
[is]. 15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he
chose their seed after them, [even] you above all people, as [it is]
this day. 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no
more stiffnecked. 17 For the LORD your God [is] God of gods, and Lord of
lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not
persons, nor taketh reward: 18 He doth execute the judgment of the
fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and
raiment. 19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the
land of Egypt. 20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou
serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. 21 He [is]
thy praise, and he [is] thy God, that hath done for thee these great and
terrible things, which thine eyes have seen. 22 Thy fathers went down
into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God
hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.” (Deuteronomy
10:1-22 AV)
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