Deuteronomy 10
1 “At that time the LORD said to me, ‘Cut for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, and come up to me on the mountain. Make yourself a wooden ark.
2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.’
3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.
4 He wrote on the tablets, just as before, the Ten Words that the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly, and the LORD gave them to me.
5 I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark I had made. They have remained there, as the LORD commanded me.
6 The Israelites set out from Beeroth Bene-jaakan for Moserah. Aaron died there and was buried there, and his son Eleazar served as priest in his place.
7 From there they set out for Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of streams of water.
8 At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD, to serve him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
9 That is why Levi has no share or inheritance with his brothers: the LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God told him.
10 I stayed on the mountain as before, forty days and forty nights. That time too the LORD listened to me; the LORD was unwilling to destroy you.
11 The LORD said to me, ‘Get up, go ahead of the people, so they may enter and take possession of the land that I swore to their ancestors I would give them.’”
12 “Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you? Only this: fear the LORD your God, walk in all his ways, love him, and serve the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul.
13 Keep the commandments of the LORD and his decrees that I am giving you today, for your good.
14 Look: the heavens, even the highest heavens, belong to the LORD your God, along with the earth and everything in it.
15 Yet the LORD set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose their descendants after them—you—out of all peoples, as you are today.
16 Circumcise the foreskin of your hearts, and do not stiffen your necks any longer.
17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribe.
18 He upholds the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the resident foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
19 So love the resident foreigner, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
20 Fear the LORD your God; serve him, hold fast to him, and swear by his name.
21 He is the one you praise; he is your God, who did for you these great and awesome things that your eyes have seen.
22 Your ancestors went down to Egypt as seventy people, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.”
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