Deuteronomy 10
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1At that time the Lord said to me, “Cut two ⌞more⌟ stone tablets like the first ones, and come up to me on the mountain. Also make an ark out of wood. 2I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed. Then you will put them in the ark.”
3I made an ark out of acacia wood. I cut two ⌞more⌟ stone tablets like the first ones. I carried the two tablets up the mountain. 4The Lord wrote on these tablets the same words as before, the ten commandments. He had spoken these words to you from the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly. Then the Lord gave them to me. 5I came back down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made. They are still there, where the Lord commanded me to put them.
6The Israelites moved from the wells of the Jaakanites to Moserah. Aaron died there and was buried, and his son Eleazar succeeded him as priest. 7They moved from there to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with rivers that don’t dry up. 8At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the Lord’s promise, to stand in the Lord’s presence when they serve him as priests, and to praise his name, as they still do today. 9This is why the tribe of Levi has no land of their own as the other tribes have. The Lord your God is their only possession, as he promised them.
10I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights as I did the first time. Once again the Lord listened to me and agreed not to destroy you. 11The Lord said to me, “Lead the people on their journey. They will enter and take possession of the land I will give them, as I swore to their ancestors.”
Israel Encouraged to Follow God’s Guidance
12Israel, what does the Lord your God want you to do? He wants you to fear him, follow all his directions, love him, and worship him with all your heart and with all your soul. 13The Lord wants you to obey his commands and laws that I’m giving you today for your own good. 14Remember that the sky, the highest heaven, the earth and everything it contains belong to the Lord your God. 15The Lord set his heart on your ancestors and loved them. Because of this, today he chooses you, their descendants, out of all the people of the world.
16So circumcise your uncircumcised hearts, and don’t be impossible to deal with any longer. 17The Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, powerful, and awe-inspiring God. He never plays favorites and never takes a bribe. 18He makes sure orphans and widows receive justice. He loves foreigners and gives them food and clothes. 19So you should love foreigners, because you were foreigners living in Egypt. 20Fear the Lord your God, worship him, be loyal to him, and take your oaths in his name. 21He is your glory. He is your God, who did for you these spectacular and awe-inspiring deeds you saw with your own eyes. 22When your ancestors went to Egypt, there were 70 of them. Now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
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Deuteronomy 10
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Deuteronomy 10
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,
2and I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou didst brake, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
3And I made an ark of cedar wood and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in my hand.
4And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten words which the Lord spoke 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.
5And I turned and came down from the mount and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the Lord commanded me.
6(After this, the sons of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the sons of Jaakan to Mosera; there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar, his son, received the priesthood in his stead.
7From there they journeyed unto Gudgodah and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
8At 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.
9Therefore, Levi had no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord thy God said unto him.)
10And I stayed in the mount, like the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also, and the Lord did not desire to destroy thee.
11And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people that they may enter in and inherit the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give unto them.
12¶ And now, Israel, what does 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,
13to keep the commandments of the Lord and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
14Behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens are of the Lord thy God, the earth also, with all that is therein.
15The Lord delighted only in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you from among all the peoples, as it is this day.
16Circumcise, therefore, the foreskin of your heart, and no longer be stiffnecked.
17For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, a great God, mighty, and terrible, who makes no exception of persons, nor takes a bribe;
18he executes the rights of the fatherless and the widow and also loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.
19Ye shall love, therefore, the stranger, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
20Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave and swear by his name.
21He shall be thy praise, and he shall be thy God, that has done with thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
22Thy fathers went down into Egypt with seventy souls, and now the Lord thy God has made thee as the stars of heaven in multitude.
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