1At that time Yahweh said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mountain, and make thee an ark of wood.
2And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
3So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mountain, having the two tables in my hand.
4And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spake unto you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yahweh gave them unto me.
5And I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
6(And the children of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.
7From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.
8At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
9Wherefore Levi hath no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh thy God spake unto him.)
10And I stayed in the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Yahweh hearkened unto me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy thee.
11And Yahweh said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give unto them.
12And now, Israel, what doth Yahweh thy God require of thee, but to fear Yahweh thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
13to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
14Behold, unto Yahweh thy God belongeth heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.
15Only Yahweh had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
17For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.
18He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the sojourner, in giving him food and raiment.
19Love ye therefore the sojourner; for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
20Thou shalt fear Yahweh thy God; him shalt thou serve; and to him shalt thou cleave, and by his name shalt thou swear.
21He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
22Thy fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.