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At that time Jehovah said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first , and come up unto me into the mount , and make thee an ark of wood .
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And 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 .
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So I made an ark of acacia wood , and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first , and went up into the mount , having the two tables in my hand .
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And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing , the ten commandments, which Jehovah spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly : and Jehovah gave them unto me.
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And I turned and came down from the mount , and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Jehovah commanded me.
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(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.
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From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water .
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At that time Jehovah set apart the tribe of Levi , to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah , to stand before Jehovah to minister unto him, and to bless in his name , unto this day .
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Wherefore Levi hath no portion nor inheritance with his brethren ; Jehovah is his inheritance , according as Jehovah thy God spake unto him.)
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And I stayed in the mount , as at the first time, forty days and forty nights : and Jehovah hearkened unto me that time also; Jehovah would not destroy thee.
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And Jehovah said unto me, Arise , take thy journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land , which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
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And now, Israel , what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God , to walk in all his ways , and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul ,
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to keep the commandments of Jehovah , and his statutes , which I command thee this day for thy good ?
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Behold, unto Jehovah thy God belongeth heaven and the heaven of heavens , the earth , with all that is therein.
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Only Jehovah 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 .
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Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
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For Jehovah 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 .
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He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the sojourner , in giving him food and raiment .
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Love ye therefore the sojourner ; for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt .
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Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God ; him shalt thou serve ; and to him shalt thou cleave , and by his name shalt thou swear .
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He is thy praise, and he is thy God , that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen .
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Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.