Deuteronomy 10
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The Covenant Renewed
1“The Lord said to me at that time, ‘Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and come to me on the mountain and make a wooden ark. 2I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you are to place them in the ark.’ 3So I made an ark of acacia wood,#Ex 25:10; 37:1 cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and climbed the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. 4Then on the day of the assembly, the Lord wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that he had spoken to you on the mountain from the fire. The Lord gave them to me, 5and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made. And they have remained there, as the Lord commanded me.”#Ex 25:16; 1Kg 8:9; Heb 9:4
6The Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-jaakan#10:6 Or from the wells of Bene-jaakan, or from the wells of the Jaakanites to Moserah. Aaron died and was buried there, and Eleazar his son became priest in his place.#Nm 20:22–29 7They traveled from there to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with flowing streams.#Nm 33:31–33
8“At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi#Ex 27:21–28:1; 32:26–29; Nm 3:45; 18:19; 25:12–13; Dt 33:8–11 to carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, to stand before the Lord to serve him, and to pronounce blessings in his name, as it is today. 9For this reason, Levi does not have a portion or inheritance like his brothers; the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God told him.#Lv 25:32–34; Nm 18:20; 26:62; Dt 18:1–2; Jos 13:14,33; Ezk 44:28–30
10“I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights like the first time. The Lord also listened to me on this occasion;#Dt 9:19 he agreed not to annihilate you. 11Then the Lord said to me, ‘Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to give their ancestors.’#Dt 1:35
What God Requires
12“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you except to fear#Dt 14:23 the Lord your God by walking in all his ways, to love him, and to worship the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul?#Dt 6:5; 11:13; 13:3; 30:6; Jos 22:5; Mt 22:37 13Keep the Lord’s commands and statutes I am giving you today, for your own good.#Ex 15:26; Dt 4:40; 11:1; 26:17; 28:45; 30:16; 1Kg 2:3; 3:14; 6:12; 8:58,61; 9:6–7; 11:38; 2Kg 17:13; 23:3 14The heavens, indeed the highest heavens, belong to the Lord your God, as does the earth and everything in it.#Ps 24:1 15Yet the Lord had his heart set on your ancestors and loved them.#Dt 4:37 He chose their descendants after them — he chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.#Dt 7:7; Ezk 20:5 16Therefore, circumcise your hearts#Dt 30:6; Jr 4:4; Rm 2:29 and don’t be stiff-necked any longer. 17For the Lord your God is the God of gods#Jos 22:22; Ps 50:1; 136:2; Dn 2:47; 11:36 and Lord of lords,#Ps 136:3; 1Tm 6:15; Rv 17:14; 19:6 the great, mighty, and awe-inspiring God, showing no partiality and taking no bribe.#2Ch 19:7; Jb 34:19; Mt 22:16 18He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the resident alien, giving him food and clothing.#Dt 27:19; Jr 22:3; Mal 3:5 19You are also to love the resident alien, since you were resident aliens in the land of Egypt.#Lv 19:34 20You are to fear the Lord your God and worship him. Remain faithful#10:20 Lit Hold on to him and take oaths in his name.#Dt 6:13; 13:4 21He is your praise and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awe-inspiring works your eyes have seen. 22Your ancestors went down to Egypt, seventy people in all,#Gn 46:27; Ex 1:5 and now the Lord your God has made you numerous, like the stars of the sky.#Gn 15:5; 22:17; 26:4
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Deuteronomy 10
10
1‘At that time hath Jehovah said unto me, Grave for thee two tables of stone, like the first, and come up unto Me, into the mount, and thou hast made for thee an ark of wood,
2and I write on the tables the words which were on the first tables, which thou hast broken, and thou hast placed them in the ark;
3and I make an ark of shittim wood, and grave two tables of stone like the first, and go up to the mount, and the two tables in my hand.
4‘And He writeth on the tables, according to the first writing, the Ten Matters, which Jehovah hath spoken unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly, and Jehovah giveth them unto me,
5and I turn and come down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made, and they are there, as Jehovah commanded me.
6‘And the sons of Israel have journeyed from Beeroth of the sons of Jaakan to Mosera, there Aaron died, and he is buried there, and Eleazar his son doth act as priest in his stead;
7thence they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.
8‘At that time hath Jehovah separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah, to serve Him, and to bless in His name, unto this day,
9therefore there hath not been to Levi a portion and inheritance with his brethren; Jehovah Himself [is] his inheritance, as Jehovah thy God hath spoken to him.
10‘And I — I have stood in the mount, as the former days, forty days and forty nights, and Jehovah hearkeneth unto me also at that time; Jehovah hath not willed to destroy thee.
11‘And Jehovah saith unto me, Rise, go to journey before the people, and they go in and possess the land which I have sworn to their fathers to give to them.
12‘And now, Israel, what is Jehovah thy God asking from thee, except to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
13to keep the commands of Jehovah, and His statutes which I am commanding thee to-day, for good to thee?
14‘Lo, to Jehovah thy God [are] the heavens and the heavens of the heavens, the earth and all that [is] in it;
15only in thy fathers hath Jehovah delighted — to love them, and He doth fix on their seed after them — on you, out of all the peoples as [at] this day;
16and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;
17for Jehovah your God — He [is] God of the gods, and Lord of the lords; God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful; who accepteth not persons, nor taketh a bribe;
18He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment.
19‘And ye have loved the sojourner, for sojourners ye were in the land of Egypt.
20‘Jehovah thy God thou dost fear, Him thou dost serve, and to Him thou dost cleave, and by His name thou dost swear.
21He [is] thy praise, and He [is] thy God, who hath done with thee these great and fearful [things] which thine eyes have seen:
22with seventy persons did thy fathers go down to Egypt, and now hath Jehovah thy God made thee as stars of the heavens for multitude.
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