¹At that time the LORD said to me , “Cut two stone tablets like the first , and come up to me onto the mountain , and make an ark of wood .

²I 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 , and went up onto the mountain , having the two tablets in my hand .

⁴He wrote on the tablets , according to the first writing , the ten commandments , which the LORD spoke to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly ; and the LORD gave them to me .

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

⁶(The children of Israel traveled 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 place .

⁷From there they traveled to Gudgodah ; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah , a land of brooks of water .

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

⁹Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance , according as the LORD your God spoke to him .)

¹⁰I stayed on the mountain , as at the first time , forty days and forty nights ; and the LORD listened to me that time also . The LORD would not destroy you .

¹¹The LORD 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 .”

¹²Now , Israel , what does the LORD your God require of you , but to fear the LORD your God , to walk in all his ways , to love him , and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul ,

¹³to keep the LORD ’s commandments and statutes , which I command you today for your good ?

¹⁴Behold , to the LORD your God belongs heaven , the heaven of heavens , and the earth , with all that is therein.

¹⁵Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them , and he chose their offspring after them , even you above all peoples , as it is today .

¹⁶Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart , and be no more stiff-necked.

¹⁷For the LORD your God , he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God , the mighty , and the awesome , who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes .

¹⁸He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing .

¹⁹Therefore love the foreigner , for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt .

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

²¹He is your praise , and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen .

²²Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons ; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude .