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. 2 And 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. 4 And 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. 5 Then 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. 7 hFrom there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of 4rivers of water. 8 At 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. 9 mTherefore 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. 11 pThen 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, 13 and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today sfor your 6good? 14 Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the tLord your God, also the earth with all that is in it. 15 The 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. 16 Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your uheart, and be vstiff-necked 8no longer. 17 For 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. 18 aHe administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. 19 Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20 bYou shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name. 21 He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen. 22 Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.