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Deuteronomy Chapter 10

¹At that time Yahweh said to me, "Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood. ²I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you are to put them in the ark." ³So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two stone tablets like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. ⁴He wrote on the tablets, like the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain from the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to me. ⁵I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and [they are] there [just] as Yahweh commanded me.

⁶(The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. Aaron died there, and there he was buried. Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his place. ⁷From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with brooks of water. ⁸At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of Yahweh's covenant, 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, just as Yahweh your God told him.)

¹⁰I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights; and Yahweh listened to me that time as well. Yahweh would not destroy you. ¹¹Yahweh said to me, "Arise, take your journey before the people; and they will go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give to them."

¹²Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and all your soul, ¹³to keep Yahweh's commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good? ¹⁴Look, heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth with all that is in it, belong to Yahweh your God. ¹⁵Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, [that's] you above all peoples, as it is today. ¹⁶Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and don't be stiff-necked any longer. ¹⁷For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't respect persons or take bribes. ¹⁸He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing. ¹⁹Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. ²⁰Fear Yahweh your God. Serve him. Cling to him, and swear by his name. ²¹He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen. ²²Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy people; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.