Deuteronomy 10

1At that time Yahweh said to me, ‘Carve for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, and come up to me on the mountain, and make for yourself a wooden ark.’

2And 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.

3So I made an ark of acacia wood and cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

4And he wrote on the tablets, like the first writing, the Ten Words that Yahweh had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to me.

5Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and I put the tablets in the ark that I had made; and they are there, just as Yahweh commanded me.

6The sons of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son served as priest in his place.

7From there they set out for Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of streams of water.

8At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.

9Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, just as Yahweh your God spoke to him.

10As for me, I stood on the mountain as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh was not willing to destroy you.

11And Yahweh said to me, “Arise, go before the people for the journey, so that they may go in and take possession of the land that I swore to their fathers to give to them.”

12And now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God ask of you, except to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul?

13to keep the commandments of Yahweh and his statutes that I am commanding you today for your good?

14Behold, to Yahweh your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth, and all that is in it.

15Yet Yahweh set his affection on your fathers, to love them, and he chose their offspring after them—you—from all the peoples, as it is this day.

16So circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and do not stiffen your neck any longer.

17For Yahweh your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, who shows no partiality and takes no bribe.

18He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

19So love the foreigner, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

20You shall fear Yahweh your God; him you shall serve, to him you shall cling, and by his name you shall swear.

21He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awe-inspiring things that your eyes have seen.

22Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now Yahweh your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the heavens.