1At that time the
Lord said to me, ‘Hew yourself two stone tablets like the first
ones, and come up the mountain to me, and make yourself an ark of wood,
2and I will write on the tablets the words which were on the first tablets, which you broke, and you will put them in the ark.’
3So I made an ark of acacia wood, and I hewed two tablets of stone like the first
ones, and I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.
4And he wrote on the tablets – as
was the first writing – the ten commandments which the
Lord spoke to you at the mountain from the middle of the fire on the day of the convocation, and the
Lord gave them to me.
5Then I turned round and went down from the mountain, and I put the tablets in the ark which I had made, and they were there, as the
Lord had commanded me.
6Then the sons of Israel moved from Beeroth of the sons of Jaakan
to Moserah. Aaron died there, and he was buried there, and Eleazar his son carried out the office of priest instead of him.
7From there they removed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.
8At that time the
Lord separated the Levite tribe to bear the ark of the covenant of the
Lord, to stand before the
Lord, to serve him and to bless in his name, up to this day.
9For this reason Levi did not have a share and an inheritance with his brothers –
it is the
Lord who
is his inheritance, as the
Lord your God said to him.
10Then I stayed on the mountain for the same
number of days as previously – forty days and forty nights – and the
Lord heard me that time too; the
Lord was willing not to destroy you.
11Then the
Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go on
your journey before the people, and they shall enter and take possession of the land
about which I swore to their fathers that
I would give
it to them.’
12So now, O Israel, what does the
Lord your God ask of you, but to fear the
Lord your God, to walk in all his paths and to love him, and to serve the
Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
13to keep the
Lord's commandments and his statutes which I am commanding you today, for your well-being?
14Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth and everything in it
are the
Lord your God's.
15But the
Lord fixed upon your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them – you – above all nations, as
it is this day.
16So circumcise the foreskin of your hearts and no longer stiffen your necks.
17For the
Lord your God
is the God of gods and
Lord of lords, the most great and mighty and fearsome
God, who does not show partiality and does not accept a bribe,
18who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and
who loves the foreigner in giving him bread and clothing.
19So you shall love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
20You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve him and cleave to him and swear by his name.
21He
is your praise and he
is your God, who performed these great and fearsome
things with you
present, which your eyes saw.
22Your fathers
who went down to Egypt
were seventy persons, but now the
Lord your God has made you like the stars of the sky in multitude.
Reference(s) in Chapter 10: v.20 ↔ Luke 4:8.