| 1 At that time Jehovah 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 on the first
tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. 3 So I made
an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and
went up into the mount, having the two tables in my hand. 4 And he wrote
on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which
Jehovah spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day
of the assembly: and Jehovah gave them unto me. 5 And I turned and came
down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and
there they are as Jehovah commanded me. 6 (And the children of Israel
journeyed 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
stead. 7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to
Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. 8 At that time Jehovah set apart the
tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, to stand before
Jehovah to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
9 Wherefore Levi hath no portion nor inheritance with his brethren;
Jehovah is his inheritance, according as Jehovah thy God spake unto him.)
10 And I stayed in the mount, as at the first time, forty days and forty
nights: and Jehovah hearkened unto me that time also; Jehovah would not
destroy thee. 11 And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before
the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I sware unto
their fathers to give unto them.
12 And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but 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, 13 to keep the
commandments of Jehovah, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for
thy good? 14 Behold, unto Jehovah thy God belongeth heaven and the heaven
of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein. 15 Only Jehovah had a
delight in thy 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 stiffnecked. 17 For Jehovah your
God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the
terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward. 18 He doth execute
justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the sojourner, in giving him
food and raiment. 19 Love ye therefore the sojourner; for ye were
sojourners in the land of Egypt. 20 Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him
shalt thou serve; and to him shalt thou cleave, and by his name shalt thou
swear. 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 Jehovah
thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
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