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Deuteronomy
10
At that time the Lord said to me: Hew thee two tables
of stone like the former, and come up to me into the
mount: and thou shalt make an ark of mood,
And I will write on the tables the words that were in
them, which thou brokest before, and thou shalt put
them in the ark.
And I made an ark of setim wood And when I had hewn
two tables of stone like the former, I went up into
the mount, having them in my hands.
And he wrote in the tables, according as he had written
before, the ten words, which the Lord spoke to you in
the mount from the midst of the fire, when the people
were assembled: and he gave them to me.
And returning from the mount, I came down, and put the
tables into the ark, that I had made, and they are there
till this present, as the Lord commanded me.
And the children of Israel removed their camp from Beroth
of the children of Jacan into Mosera, where Aaron died
and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him in
the priestly office.
From thence they came to Gadgad, from which place they
departed, and camped in Jetebatha, in a land of waters
and torrents.
At that time he separated the tribe of Levi, to carry
the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to stand before
him in the ministry, and to bless in his name until
this present day.
Wherefore Levi hath no part nor possession with his
brethren: because the Lord himself is his possession,
as the Lord thy God promised him.
And I stood in the mount, as before, forty days and
nights: and the Lord heard me this time also, and would
not destroy thee.
And he said to me: Go, and walk before the people, that
they may enter, and possess the land, which I swore
to their fathers that I would give them.
And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require
of thee, but that thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk
in his ways, and love him, and serve the Lord thy God,
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:
And keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies,
which I command thee this day, that it may be well with
thee?
Behold heaven is the Lord's thy God, and the heaven
of heaven, the earth and all things that are therein.
And yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers,
and loved them and chose their seed after them, that
is to say, you, out of all nations, as this day it is
proved.
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and
stiffen your neck no more.
Because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and
the Lord of lords, a great God and mighty and terrible,
a who accepteth no person nor taketh bribes.
He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth
the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.
And do you therefore love strangers, because you also
were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only:
to him thou shalt adhere, and shalt swear by his name.
He is thy praise, and thy God, that hath done for thee
these great and terrible things, which thy eyes have
seen.
In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and
behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as
the stars of heaven.
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