Deuteronomy 10

The Second Pair of Tablets

10“At that time the Lord said to me, ¹‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an ^aark of wood. ²And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and ^byou shall put them in the ark.’

³“So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. ⁴And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten ²Commandments, ^cwhich the Lord had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me. ⁵Then I turned and ^dcame down from the mountain, and ^eput the tablets in the ark which I had made; ^fand there they are, just as the Lord commanded me.”

⁶(Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron ^gdied, and where he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his ³stead. ^7hFrom there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of ⁴rivers of water. ⁸At that time ⁱthe Lord ⁵separated the tribe of Levi ^jto bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, ^kto stand before the Lord to minister to Him and ^lto bless in His name, to this day. ^9mTherefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, just as the Lord your God promised him.)

¹⁰“As at the first time, ⁿI stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; ^othe Lord also heard me at that time, and the Lord chose not to destroy you. ^11pThen the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, begin your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’

The Essence of the Law

¹²“And now, Israel, ^qwhat does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to ^rlove Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹³and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today ^sfor your ⁶good? ¹⁴Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the ^tLord your God, also the earth with all that is in it. ¹⁵The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their ⁷descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day. ¹⁶Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your ^uheart, and be ^vstiff-necked ⁸no longer. ¹⁷For the Lord your God is ^wGod of gods and ^xLord of lords, the great God, ^ymighty and awesome, who ^zshows no partiality nor takes a bribe. ^18aHe administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. ¹⁹Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. ^20bYou shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name. ²¹He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen. ²²Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.