New Tablets of Stone

¹“At that time the Lord said to me, l‘Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain and mmake an ark of wood. ²And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and nyou shall put them in the ark.’ ³So I made an ark oof acacia wood, and pcut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. ⁴And qhe wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments1 rthat the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire son the day of the assembly. And the Lord gave them to me. ⁵Then I turned and tcame down from the mountain and uput the tablets in the ark that I had made. vAnd there they are, as the Lord commanded me.”

⁶(The people of Israel wjourneyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan2 to Moserah. xThere Aaron died, and there he was buried. And his son Eleazar ministered as priest in his place. ⁷yFrom there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with brooks of water. ⁸At that time zthe Lord set apart the tribe of Levi ato carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord bto stand before the Lord to minister to him and cto bless in his name, to this day. ⁹dTherefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers. The Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God said to him.)

¹⁰e“I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, fand the Lord listened to me that time also. The Lord was unwilling to destroy you. ¹¹gAnd the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go on your journey at the head of the people, so that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them.’

Circumcise Your Heart

¹²“And now, Israel, hwhat does the Lord your God require of you, but ito fear the Lord your God, jto walk in all his ways, kto love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹³and lto keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today mfor your good? ¹⁴Behold, nto the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, othe earth with all that is in it. ¹⁵Yet pthe Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day. ¹⁶Circumcise therefore qthe foreskin of your heart, and be no longer rstubborn. ¹⁷For the Lord your God is sGod of gods and tLord of lords, uthe great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is vnot partial and takes no bribe. ¹⁸wHe executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. ¹⁹xLove the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. ²⁰iYou shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him and yhold fast to him, and zby his name you shall swear. ²¹aHe is your praise. He is your God, bwho has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen. ²²Your fathers went down to Egypt cseventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you das numerous as the stars of heaven.