1 At that time the Lord said to me,lEx. 34:1, 2 ‘Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain andmEx. 25:10 make an ark of wood. 2 And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, andnEx. 25:16, 21 you shall put them in the ark. ’ 3 So I made an arkoEx. 25:10; 37:1 of acacia wood, andpEx. 34:4 cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. 4 AndqEx. 34:28 he wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten CommandmentsrEx. 20:1 that the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the firesSee ch. 9:10 on the day of the assembly. And the Lord gave them to me. 5 Then I turned andtEx. 34:29 came down from the mountain anduEx. 40:20 put the tablets in the ark that I had made.v1 Kgs. 8:9 And there they are, as the Lord commanded me. ”
6 (The people of IsraelwNum. 33:30, 31 journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan1Or the wells of the Bene-jaakan to Moserah.x[Num. 20:28; 33:38] There Aaron died, and there he was buried. And his son Eleazar ministered as priest in his place. 7 yNum. 33:32, 33 From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with brooks of water. 8 At that timezNum. 3:6; 8:14; 16:9; [1 Chr. 23:13] the Lord set apart the tribe of LeviaNum. 4:5, 15 to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lordbch. 17:12; 18:5, 7 to stand before the Lord to minister to him andcch. 21:5; Lev. 9:22; See Num. 6:23-26 to bless in his name, to this day. 9 dSee Num. 18:20 Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers. The Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God said to him.)
10 ech. 9:18, 25 “I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights,fch. 9:19 and the Lord listened to me that time also. The Lord was unwilling to destroy you. 11 gEx. 32:34; 33:1 And the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go on your journey at the head of the people, so that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them. ’
12 And now, Israel,h[Mic. 6:8] what does the Lord your God require of you, butiSee ch. 6:2, 13 to fear the Lord your God,jSee ch. 5:33 to walk in all his ways,kSee ch. 6:5 to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 andlch. 7:11 to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you todaymch. 6:24 for your good? 14 Behold,n1 Kgs. 8:27; 2 Chr. 6:18; Neh. 9:6; Ps. 115:16; Isa. 66:1 to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens,oEx. 19:5; Ps. 24:1 the earth with all that is in it. 15 Yetpch. 4:37; [ch. 7:7] the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day. 16 Circumcise thereforeqch. 30:6; Jer. 4:4; [Acts 7:51] the foreskin of your heart, and be no longerrSee ch. 9:6 stubborn. 17 For the Lord your God issJosh. 22:22; Ps. 136:2; Dan. 2:47; 11:36 God of gods andtRev. 17:14; 19:16 Lord of lords,uNeh. 9:32; See ch. 7:21 the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who isv2 Chr. 19:7; Job 34:19; Acts 10:34; Rom. 2:11; Gal. 2:6; Eph. 6:9; Col. 3:25; 1 Pet. 1:17 not partial and takes no bribe. 18 wPs. 68:5; 146:9; [ch. 24:17; Ex. 22:22] He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. 19 xEx. 22:21; 23:9; Lev. 19:33, 34 Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 20 i[See ver. 12 above] You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him andych. 11:22; 13:4; 30:20 hold fast to him, andzSee ch. 6:13 by his name you shall swear. 21 aPs. 22:3; 109:1; Jer. 17:14 He is your praise. He is your God,b2 Sam. 7:23; Ps. 106:21, 22 who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen. 22 Your fathers went down to EgyptcGen. 46:27; Ex. 1:5; [Acts 7:14] seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made youdch. 28:62; Neh. 9:23; See Gen. 15:5 as numerous as the stars of heaven.