1 At that time Yahweh said to me, Hew you two tables of stone like
the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
2 I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which
you broke, and you shall put them in the ark. 3 So I made an ark of acacia
wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and went up onto the
mountain, having the two tables in my hand. 4 He wrote on the tables,
according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to
you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly:
and Yahweh gave them to me. 5 I turned and came down from the mountain,
and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh
commanded me. 6 (The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan
to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son
ministered in the priest’s office in his place. 7 From there they
traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of
water. 8 At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark
of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to
bless in his name, to this day. 9 Therefore Levi has no portion nor
inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh
your God spoke to him.) 10 I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time,
forty days and forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh
would not destroy you. 11 Yahweh said to me, Arise, take your journey
before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore
to their fathers to give to them. 12 Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your
God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and
to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all
your soul, 13 to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which
I command you this day for your good? 14 Behold, to Yahweh your God
belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is
therein. 15 Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he
chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more
stiff-necked. 17 For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of
lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t regard
persons, nor takes reward. 18 He does execute justice for the fatherless
and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
19 Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in
the land of Egypt. 20 You shall fear Yahweh your God; him shall you serve;
and to him shall you cleave, and by his name shall you swear. 21 He is
your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome
things, which your eyes have seen. 22 Your fathers went down into Egypt
with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of
the sky for multitude.
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