Deuteronomy 10

New King James Version

The Second Pair of Tablets^(A)

10 “At that time the Lord said to me, ^[a]‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an ^(B)ark of wood. ² And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and ^(C)you shall put them in the ark.’

³ “So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. ⁴ And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten ^[b]Commandments, ^(D)which the Lord had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me. ⁵ Then I turned and ^(E)came down from the mountain, and ^(F)put the tablets in the ark which I had made; ^(G)and there they are, just as the Lord commanded me.”

⁶ (Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron ^(H)died, and where he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his ^[c]stead. ^7 (I)From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of ^[d]rivers of water. ⁸ At that time ^(J)the Lord ^[e]separated the tribe of Levi ^(K)to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, ^(L)to stand before the Lord to minister to Him and ^(M)to bless in His name, to this day. ^9 (N)Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, just as the Lord your God promised him.)

¹⁰ “As at the first time, ^(O)I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; ^(P)the Lord also heard me at that time, and the Lord chose not to destroy you. ^11 (Q)Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, begin your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’

The Essence of the Law

¹² “And now, Israel, ^(R)what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to ^(S)love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹³ and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today ^(T)for your ^[f]good? ¹⁴ Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the ^(U)Lord your God, also the earth with all that is in it. ¹⁵ The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their ^[g]descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day. ¹⁶ Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your ^(V)heart, and be ^(W)stiff-necked^[h] no longer. ¹⁷ For the Lord your God is ^(X)God of gods and ^(Y)Lord of lords, the great God, ^(Z)mighty and awesome, who ^(AA)shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. ^18 (AB)He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. ¹⁹ Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. ^20 (AC)You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name. ²¹ He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen. ²² Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.