Deuteronomy 10
1 At that
time the
LORD said unto me,
Hew thee
two tables of
stone like unto the
first, and come
up unto me into the
mount, and
make thee an
ark of
wood. 2 And I will
write on the
tables the
words that were in the
first tables which thou
brakest, and thou shalt
put them in the
ark. 3 And I
made an
ark of
shittim wood, and
hewed two tables of
stone like unto the
first, and went
up into the
mount, having the
two tables in mine
hand. 4 And he
wrote on the
tables, according to the
first writing, the
ten commandments, which the
LORD spake unto you in the
mount out of the
midst of the
fire in the
day of the
assembly: and the
LORD gave them unto me.
5 And I
turned myself and came
down from the
mount, and
put the
tables in the
ark which I had
made; and there they be, as the
LORD commanded me.
6 And the
children of
Israel took their
journey from Beeroth of the children of
Jaakan to
Mosera: there
Aaron died, and there he was
buried; and
Eleazar his
son ministered in the priest's
office in his stead.
7 From thence they
journeyed unto
Gudgodah; and from
Gudgodah to
Jotbath, a
land of
rivers of
waters. 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
minister unto him, and to
bless in his
name, unto this
day. 9 Wherefore
Levi hath no
part nor
inheritance with his
brethren; the
LORD is his
inheritance, according as the
LORD thy
God promised him.
10 And I
stayed in the
mount, according to the
first time, forty days and
forty nights; and the
LORD hearkened unto me at that
time also, and the
LORD would not
destroy thee.
11 And the
LORD said unto me,
Arise,
take thy
journey before the
people, that they may go
in and
possess the
land, which I
sware unto their
fathers to
give unto them.
12 And now,
Israel, what doth the
LORD thy
God require of thee, but to
fear the
LORD thy
God, to
walk in all his
ways, and to
love him, and to
serve the
LORD thy
God with all thy
heart and with all thy
soul, 13 To
keep the
commandments of the
LORD, and his
statutes, which I
command thee this
day for thy
good? 14 Behold, the
heaven and the
heaven of
heavens is the
LORD'S thy
God, the
earth also, with all that therein is.
15 Only the
LORD had a
delight in thy
fathers to
love them, and he
chose their
seed after them, even you above all
people, as it is this
day. 16 Circumcise therefore the
foreskin of your
heart, and be no more
stiffnecked .
17 For the
LORD your
God is
God of
gods, and
Lord of
lords, a
great God, a
mighty, and a
terrible, which
regardeth not
persons, nor
taketh reward: 18 He doth
execute the
judgment of the
fatherless and
widow, and
loveth the
stranger, in
giving him
food and
raiment. 19 Love ye therefore the
stranger: for ye were
strangers in the
land of
Egypt. 20 Thou shalt
fear the
LORD thy
God; him shalt thou
serve, and to him shalt thou
cleave, and
swear by his
name. 21 He is thy
praise, and he is thy
God, that hath
done for thee these
great and terrible
things, which thine
eyes have
seen.
22 Thy
fathers went
down into
Egypt with threescore and
ten persons; and now the
LORD thy
God hath
made thee as the
stars of
heaven for
multitude.