AT
that time the LORD 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 in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
3 And I
made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the
first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
4 And he
wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten
commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the
midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
5 And I
turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which
I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded
me.
6 And the
children of Israel
took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: 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 Jotbath, a land of
rivers of waters.
8 At that
time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of
the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his
name, unto this day.
9 Wherefore
Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren;
the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.
10 And I
stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights;
and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not
destroy thee.
11 And
the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that
they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give
unto them.
12 And
now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD
thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy
God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
13 To
keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this
day for thy good?
14 Behold,
the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD?S thy God, the earth also,
with all that therein is.
15 Only
the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed
after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
16 Circumcise
therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more
stiffnecked.
17 For
the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a
mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
18 He
doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger,
in giving him food and raiment.
19 Love
ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land
of Egypt.
20 Thou
shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou
cleave, and swear by his name.
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 the LORD thy God hath
made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
