1At that time Yahweh said to me, “Carve for yourself two tablets of stone like the first ones, and come up to me on the mountain, and make for yourself an ark of wood.
2And 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.”
3So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.
4And he wrote on the tablets, like the first writing, the ten words that Yahweh had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to me.
5Then I turned and went down from the mountain, and I put the tablets in the ark that I had made; and they have remained there, as Yahweh commanded me.
6(And the sons of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried there, and Eleazar his son served as priest in his place.
7From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of streams of water.
8At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day.
9Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)
10And I stood on the mountain as in the first days, forty days and forty nights, and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh was not willing to destroy you.
11And Yahweh said to me, “Arise, go on the journey before the people, so that they may enter and take possession of the land that I swore to their fathers to give to them.”
12And now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God ask 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 self,
13to keep the commandments of Yahweh and his statutes, which I am commanding you today, for your good?
14Behold, to Yahweh your God belong the heavens and the heaven of heavens, the earth and all that is in it.
15Yet on your fathers Yahweh set his affection to love them, and he chose their offspring after them—you—out of all the peoples, as it is this day.
16So circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no longer.
17For Yahweh your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty and the awesome, who shows no partiality and takes no bribe,
18who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the sojourner, giving him bread and clothing.
19So you shall love the sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
20You shall fear Yahweh your God; him you shall serve, and to him you shall cling, and by his name you shall swear.
21He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things that your eyes have seen.
22With seventy persons your fathers went down to Egypt, and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the heavens for multitude.
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