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Chapter 10
1 At that time the Lord said to me: Hew you two tables of stone like the former, and come up to me into the mount: and you shall make an ark of mood,
2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in them, which you broke before, and you shall put them in the ark.
3 And I made an ark of setim wood And when I had hewn two tables of stone like the former, I went up into the mount, having them in my hands.
4 And he wrote in the tables, according as he had written before, the ten words, which the Lord spoke to you in the mount from the midst of the fire, when the people were assembled: and he gave them to me.
5 And returning from the mount, I came down, and put the tables into the ark, that I had made, and they are there till this present, as the Lord commanded me.
6 And the children of Israel removed their camp from Beroth of the children of Jacan into Mosera, where Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him in the priestly office.
7 From thence they came to Gadgad, from which place they departed, and camped in Jetebatha, in a land of waters and torrents.
8 At that time he separated the tribe of Levi, to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to stand before him in the ministry, and to bless in his name until this present day.
9 Wherefore Levi has no part nor possession with his brethren: because the Lord himself is his possession, as the Lord your God promised him.
10 And I stood in the mount, as before, forty days and nights: and the Lord heard me this time also, and would not destroy you.
11 And he said to me: Go, and walk before the people, that they may enter, and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers that I would give them.
12 And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but that you fear the Lord your God, and walk in his ways, and love him, and serve the Lord your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul:
13 And keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies, which I command you this day, that it may be well with you?
14 Behold heaven is the Lord's your God, and the heaven of heaven, the earth and all things that are therein.
15 And yet the Lord has been closely joined to your fathers, and loved them and chose their seed after them, that is to say, you, out of all nations, as this day it is proved.
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.
17 Because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a great God and mighty and terrible, a who accepts no person nor takes bribes.
18 He does judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loves the stranger, and gives him food and raiment.
19 And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
20 You shall fear the Lord your God, and serve him only: to him you shall adhere, and shall swear by his name.
21 He is your praise, and your God, that has done for you these great and terrible things, which your eyes have seen.
22 In seventy souls your fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now the Lord your God has multiplied you as the stars of heaven.