Deut 10
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At that time YHWH said to me, Hew you two tables of stone like to the first, and come
up to me into the mount, and make you an ark of wood.
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And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you break,
and you shall put them in the ark.
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So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like to the first,
and went up into the mount, having the two tables in my hand.
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And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments,
which YHWH spoke to you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the
assembly: and YHWH gave them to me.
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And I turned and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had
made; and there they are as YHWH commanded me.
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(And the children of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron
died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest`s office
in his stead.
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From there they journeyed to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks
of water.
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At that time YHWH set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of
YHWH, to stand before YHWH to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
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Wherefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; YHWH is his inheritance,
according as YHWH your God spoke to him.)
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And I stayed in the mount, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and
YHWH hearkened to me that time also; YHWH would not destroy you.
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And YHWH said to me, Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go
in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them.
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And now, Israel, what does YHWH your God require of you, but to fear YHWH your God,
to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve YHWH your God with all your
heart and with all your soul,
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to keep the commandments of YHWH, and his statutes, which I command you this day for
your good?
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Behold, to YHWH your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with
all that is therein.
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Only YHWH had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after
them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
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Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
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For YHWH your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty,
and the terrible, who regards not persons, nor takes reward.
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He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner, in
giving him food and raiment.
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Love you therefore the sojourner; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
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You shall fear YHWH your God; him shall you serve; and to him shall you cleave, and
by his name shall you swear.
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He is your praise, and he is your God, that has done for you these great and terrible
things, which your eyes have seen.
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Your fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now YHWH your
God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.