Deuteronomy 10:1–22
10 At that time the Lord said to me, “Chisel out two stone tabletsw 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
3 So I made the ark out of acacia woody and chiseledz out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands. 4 The Lord wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandmentsa he had proclaimedb to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.c And the Lord gave them to me. 5 Then I came back down the mountaind and put the tablets in the arke 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 Eleazarj 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 Levim to carry the ark of the covenantn of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to ministero and to pronounce blessingsp 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.)
10 Now 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.”
12 And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of yout but to fearu the Lord your God, to walkv in obedience to him, to love him,w to serve the Lordx your God with all your hearty and with all your soul,z 13 and to observe the Lord’s commandsa and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?b
14 To 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 lovedf 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-neckedk any longer. 17 For the Lord your God is God of godsl and Lord of lords,m the great God, mighty and awesome,n who shows no partialityo 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 loves those who are foreigners,t for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.u 20 Fear the Lord your God and serve him.v Hold fastw 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 greatz and awesome wondersa you saw with your own eyes. 22 Your 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