1 "At that time the LORD said to me, 'Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make yourself a wooden ark.
2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed, and you are to put them in the ark.'
3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.
4 He wrote on the tablets, as he had written before, the Ten Words that the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the middle of the fire on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.
5 Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made, and they are still there, as the LORD commanded me.
6 (The children of Israel set out from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and his son Eleazar served as priest in his place.
7 From there they set out to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of flowing streams.
8 At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to him, and to bless in his name, as they do to this day.
9 That is why Levi has no share or inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God told him.)
10 "I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I had the first time, and the LORD listened to me that time also. The LORD was not willing to destroy you.
11 The LORD said to me, 'Get up and set out at the head of the people, so that they may go in and possess the land I swore to their fathers to give them.'
12 "And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask 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,
13 and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you today for your own good?
14 See, the heavens, even the highest heavens, belong to the LORD your God, as do the earth and everything in it.
15 Yet the LORD set his heart on your fathers and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants after them, out of all the peoples, as it is today.
16 So circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stiff-necked any longer.
17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribe.
18 He upholds the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and he loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
19 So you too must love the sojourner, for you yourselves were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
20 Fear the LORD your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and swear by his name.
21 He is your praise, and he is your God, who did for you these great and awesome things you saw with your own eyes.
22 Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as many as the stars in the sky.