The Second Tables of Stone
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📚At that time the LORD said to me, “Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me on the mountain; and make an ark of wood. 2 📚And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark”. 3 📚And I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up on the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. 4 📚And he wrote on the tablets, like the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me. 5 📚And I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and they are there, just as the LORD commanded me.
6 📚(And the children of Israel set out from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan for Mosera. There Aaron died, and there he was buried. And Eleazar his son served as priest in his place. 7 📚From there they went to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of streams of water. 8 📚At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to serve him, and to bless in his name, as it is to this day. 9 📚Therefore Levi has no part or inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, just as the LORD your God promised him.)
10 📚And I stayed on the mountain like the first time for forty days and forty nights; and the LORD listened to me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy you. 11 📚And the LORD said to me, “Arise, set out before the people, so that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them”.
The duty of Israel
12 📚And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 📚to keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?
14 📚Look, the heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to the LORD your God, also the earth with everything that is in it. 15 📚Yet the LORD set his affection on your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. 16 📚Therefore circumcise your heart 📖, and do not be stiff-necked any longer. 17 📚For the LORD your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, a great, mighty and awe-inspiring God who does not show partiality or take a bribe. 18 📚He executes judgment for the fatherless and widow, and shows love for the foreigner by giving him food and clothes. 19 📚Therefore you are to love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. 20 📚You must fear 📖 the LORD your God; you must serve him, and cling to him 📖, and take oaths by his name. 21 📚He is your praise, and he is your God who has done for you these great and awe-inspiring 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 numerous as the stars of heaven.