Deuteronomy 10

Tablets Like the First Ones

10At that time the Lord said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets^w like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark.^{a 2}I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the ark.”^x

³So I made the ark out of acacia wood^y and chiseled^z out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands. ⁴The Lord wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments^a he had proclaimed^b to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.^c And the Lord gave them to me. ⁵Then I came back down the mountain^d and put the tablets in the ark^e I had made,^f as the Lord commanded me, and they are there now.^g

⁶(The Israelites traveled from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah.^h There Aaron diedⁱ and was buried, and Eleazar^j his son succeeded him as priest.^{k 7}From there they traveled to Gudgodah and on to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.^{l 8}At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi^m to carry the ark of the covenantⁿ of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister^o and to pronounce blessings^p in his name, as they still do today.^{q 9}That is why the Levites have no share or inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the Lord is their inheritance,^r as the Lord your God told them.)

¹⁰Now I had stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I did the first time, and the Lord listened to me at this time also. It was not his will to destroy you.^{s 11}“Go,” the Lord said to me, “and lead the people on their way, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.”

Fear the Lord

¹²And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you^t but to fear^u the Lord your God, to walk^v in obedience to him, to love him,^w to serve the Lord^x your God with all your heart^y and with all your soul,^{z 13}and to observe the Lord’s commands^a and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?^b

¹⁴To the Lord your God belong the heavens,^c even the highest heavens,^d the earth and everything in it.^{e 15}Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved^f them, and he chose you,^g their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today.^{h 16}Circumciseⁱ your hearts,^j therefore, and do not be stiff-necked^k any longer. ¹⁷For the Lord your God is God of gods^l and Lord of lords,^m the great God, mighty and awesome,ⁿ who shows no partiality^o and accepts no bribes.^{p 18}He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow,^q and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.^{r 19}And you are to love^s those who are foreigners,^t for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.^{u 20}Fear the Lord your God and serve him.^v Hold fast^w to him and take your oaths in his name.^{x 21}He is the one you praise;^y he is your God, who performed for you those great^z and awesome wonders^a you saw with your own eyes. ²²Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all,^b and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.^c