CHAPTER 10
At that
time
the LORD
said
to me,
“Chisel
two
stone
tablets
like the first ones,
come up
to Me
on the mountain,
and make
an ark
of wood.
And I will write
on
the tablets
the words
that
were
on
the first
tablets,
which
you broke;
and you are to place
them in the ark.”
So I made
an ark
of acacia
wood,
cut
two
stone
tablets
like the first ones,
and climbed
the mountain
with the two
tablets
in my hands.
And the LORD wrote
on
the tablets
what had been written
previously,
the Ten
Commandments
that
He
had spoken
to
you on the mountain
out of
the fire
on the day
of the assembly.
The LORD
gave
them to me,
and I went back
down
the mountain
and placed
the tablets
in the ark
I had made,
as
the LORD
had commanded me,
and there
they have remained.
The Israelites
traveled
from
Beeroth Bene-jaakan
to Moserah,
where
Aaron
died
and was buried,
and Eleazar
his son
succeeded him as priest.
From
there
they traveled
to Gudgodah,
and from Gudgodah
to Jotbathah,
a land
with streams
of water.
At that
time
the LORD
set apart
the tribe
of Levi
to carry
the ark
of the covenant
of the LORD,
to stand
before
the LORD
to serve Him,
and to pronounce blessings
in His name,
as they do to this day.
That is why
Levi
has
no
portion
or inheritance
among
his brothers;
the LORD
is his inheritance,
as
the LORD
your God
promised him.
I
stayed
on the mountain
forty
days
and forty
nights,
like the first
time,
and that
time
the LORD
again
listened
to me
and
agreed
not
to destroy you.
Then the LORD
said
to me,
“Get up.
Continue
your journey
ahead of
the people,
that they may enter
and possess
the land
I swore
to
their fathers
to give them.”
“And now,
O Israel,
what
does the LORD
your God
ask
of you
but
to fear
the LORD
your God
by walking
in all
His ways,
to love Him,
to serve
the LORD
your God
with all
your heart
and with all
your soul,
and to keep
the commandments
and statutes
of the LORD,
which
I
am giving you
this day
for your own good?
Behold,
to the LORD
your God
belong the heavens,
even the highest
heavens,
and the earth
and everything in it.
Yet
the LORD
has set His affection
on your fathers
and loved
them.
And He has chosen you,
their descendants
after
them,
above all
the peoples,
even to this day.
For
the LORD
your God
is God
of gods
and Lord
of lords,
the great,
mighty,
and awesome
God,
showing no
partiality
and accepting
no
bribe.
He executes
justice
for the fatherless
and widow,
and He loves
the foreigner,
giving
him
food
and clothing.
You are to fear
the LORD
your God
and serve Him.
Hold fast to Him
and take your oaths
in His name.
He
is your praise
and He
is your God,
who
has done
for you
these
great
and awesome wonders
your eyes
have seen.
Your fathers
went down
to Egypt,
seventy
in all,
and now
the LORD
your God
has made
you as numerous
as the stars
in the sky.