The Second Pair of Tablets
1 “At that time theLordsaid to me, ‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself anark of wood.
2 And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; andyou 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 Commandments,which theLordhad spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and theLordgave them to me.
5 Then I turned andcame down from the mountain, andput the tablets in the ark which I had made;and there they are, just as theLordcommanded me.”
6 (Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah, where Aarondied, and where he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his stead.
7 From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of rivers of water.
8 At that timetheLordseparated the tribe of Levito bear the ark of the covenant of theLord,to stand before theLordto minister to Him andto bless in His name, to this day.
9 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; theLordishis inheritance, just as theLordyour God promised him.)
10 “As at the first time,I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights;theLordalso heard me at that time,andtheLordchose not to destroy you.
11 Then theLordsaid to me, ‘Arise, beginyourjourney 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,what does theLordyour God require of you, but to fear theLordyour God, to walk in all His ways and tolove Him, to serve theLordyour God with all your heart and with all your soul,
13 andto keep the commandments of theLordand His statutes which I command you todayfor your good?
14 Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to theLordyour God,alsothe earth with all thatisin it.
15 TheLorddelighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, asitisthis day.
16 Therefore circumcise the foreskin of yourheart, and bestiff-necked no longer.
17 For theLordyour GodisGod of gods andLord of lords, the great God,mighty and awesome, whoshows no partiality nor takes a bribe.
18 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 You shall fear theLordyour God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name.
21 Heisyour praise, and Heisyour 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 theLordyour God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.