¶ At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew¹ thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee² an ark of wood.

And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt³ put them in the ark.

And I made⁴ an ark of shittim wood, and hewed⁵ two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

And he wrote⁶ on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten⁷ commandments⁸, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the⁹ midst of the fire in the day¹⁰ of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.

And I turned¹¹ myself and came down from the mount, and put the¹² tables in the ark which I had made; and there they¹³ be, as the LORD commanded me.

And the children of Israel took¹⁴ their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera¹⁵: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.

From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.

At that time the LORD¹⁷ separated the tribe of Levi, to bear¹⁸ the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand¹⁹ before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless²⁰ in his name, unto this day.

²¹Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.

¶ And I stayed²² in the mount, according to the first time²³, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.

And the LORD said unto me, Arise²⁴, take thy²⁵ journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.

¶ And now, Israel, what doth²⁶ the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear²⁷ the LORD thy God, to walk²⁸ in all his ways, and to love²⁹ him, and to serve³⁰ the LORD thy God with all³¹ thy heart and with all thy soul,

To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy³² good?

Behold, the heaven³³ and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth³⁴ also, with all that therein is.

³⁵Only 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.

Circumcise³⁶ therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked³⁷.

For the LORD your God is God of gods³⁸, and Lord of lords³⁹, a great⁴⁰ God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth⁴¹ not persons, nor taketh reward:

He doth⁴² execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth⁴³ the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

⁴⁴Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

¶ Thou shalt fear⁴⁵ the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave⁴⁶, and swear⁴⁷ by his name.

He is thy praise⁴⁸, and he is thy God, that hath⁴⁹ done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore⁵⁰ and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars⁵¹ of heaven for multitude.