10“The Lord said to me at that time, ‘Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and come to me on the mountain and make a wooden ark. ²I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you are to place them in the ark.’ ³So I made an ark of acacia wood,^m cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and climbed the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. ⁴Then on the day of the assembly, the Lord wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that he had spoken to you on the mountain from the fire. The Lord gave them to me, ⁵and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made. And they have remained there, as the Lord commanded me.”ⁿ

⁶The Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-jaakan^A to Moserah. Aaron died and was buried there, and Eleazar his son became priest in his place.^o ⁷They traveled from there to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with flowing streams.^p

⁸“At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi^q to carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, to stand before the Lord to serve him, and to pronounce blessings in his name, as it is today. ⁹For this reason, Levi does not have a portion or inheritance like his brothers; the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God told him.^r

¹⁰“I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights like the first time. The Lord also listened to me on this occasion;^s he agreed not to annihilate you. ¹¹Then the Lord said to me, ‘Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to give their ancestors.’^t

WHAT GOD REQUIRES

¹²“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you except to fear^a the Lord your God by walking in all his ways, to love him, and to worship the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul?^b ¹³Keep the Lord’s commands and statutes I am giving you today, for your own good.^c ¹⁴The heavens, indeed the highest heavens, belong to the Lord your God, as does the earth and everything in it.^d ¹⁵Yet the Lord had his heart set on your ancestors and loved them.^e He chose their descendants after them—he chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.^f ¹⁶Therefore, circumcise your hearts^g and don’t be stiff-necked any longer. ¹⁷For the Lord your God is the God of gods^h and Lord of lords,ⁱ the great, mighty, and awe-inspiring God, showing no partiality and taking no bribe.^j ¹⁸He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the resident alien, giving him food and clothing.^k ¹⁹You are also to love the resident alien, since you were resident aliens in the land of Egypt.^l ²⁰You are to fear the Lord your God and worship him. Remain faithful^A to him and take oaths in his name.^m ²¹He is your praise and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awe-inspiring works your eyes have seen. ²²Your ancestors went down to Egypt, seventy people in all,ⁿ and now the Lord your God has made you numerous, like the stars of the sky.^o

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Footnotes

AOr from the wells of Bene-jaakan, or from the wells of the Jaakanites
A Hold on

Cross references

m Ex 25:10; 37:1
n Ex 25:16; 1Kg 8:9; Heb 9:4
o Nm 20:22–29
p Nm 33:31–33
q Ex 27:21–28:1; 32:26–29; Nm 3:45; 18:19; 25:12–13; Dt 33:8–11
r Lv 25:32–34; Nm 18:20; 26:62; Dt 18:1–2; Jos 13:14,33; Ezk 44:28–30
s Dt 9:19
t Dt 1:35
a Dt 14:23
b Dt 6:5; 11:13; 13:3; 30:6; Jos 22:5; Mt 22:37
c Ex 15:26; Dt 4:40; 11:1; 26:17; 28:45; 30:16; 1Kg 2:3; 3:14; 6:12; 8:58,61; 9:6–7; 11:38; 2Kg 17:13; 23:3
d Ps 24:1
e Dt 4:37
f Dt 7:7; Ezk 20:5
g Dt 30:6; Jr 4:4; Rm 2:29
h Jos 22:22; Ps 50:1; 136:2; Dn 2:47; 11:36
i Ps 136:3; 1Tm 6:15; Rv 17:14; 19:6
j 2Ch 19:7; Jb 34:19; Mt 22:16
k Dt 27:19; Jr 22:3; Mal 3:5
l Lv 19:34
m Dt 6:13; 13:4
n Gn 46:27; Ex 1:5
o Gn 15:5; 22:17; 26:4