Deuteronomy 10 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ “At that time יהוה  said to me, ‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain. And you shall make yourself an ark of wood,

² then I write on the tablets the Words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. And 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, with the two tablets in my hand.

⁴ “And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten Words, which יהוה  had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. Then יהוה  gave them to me,

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

⁶ Now the children of Yisra’ĕ

⁷ From there they set out to Guḏ

⁸ At that time יהוה  separated the tribe of Lĕ

⁹ Therefore Lĕ

¹⁰ “And I stayed in the mountain for forty days and forty nights. And יהוה  heard me at that time also, and יהוה  chose not to destroy you.

¹¹ “And יהוה  said to me, ‘Arise, go before the people, to set out, and let them go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’

¹² “And now, Yisra’ĕ

¹³ to guard the commands of יהוה  and His laws which I command you today for your good?

¹⁴ “See, the heavens and the heaven of heavens belong to יהוה  your Elohim, also the earth with all that is in it.

¹⁵ “יהוה  delighted only in your fathers, to love them. And He chose their seed after them, you above all peoples, as it is today.

¹⁶ “And you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and harden your neck no more.

¹⁷ “For יהוה  your Elohim is Elohim of mighty ones and Master of masters, the great Ě

¹⁸ “He executes right-ruling for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and a garment.

¹⁹ “And you shall love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Mitsrayim.

²⁰ “Fear יהוה  your Elohim. Serve Him, and cling to Him, and swear by His Name.

²¹ “He is your praise, and He is your Elohim, who has done for you these great and awesome deeds which your eyes have seen.

²² “Your fathers went down to Mitsrayim with seventy beings, and now יהוה  your Elohim has made you as numerous as the stars of the heavens.