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At that time Jehovah said unto me, Hew for thyself two tables of stone like the first , and come up unto me into the mountain , 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 didst break , and thou shalt lay them in the ark .
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And I made an ark of acacia-wood , and hewed two tables of stone like the first , and went up the mountain with the two tables in my hand .
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And he wrote on the tables, as the first writing , the ten words which Jehovah spoke unto you on the mountain , from the midst of the fire , on the day of the assembly , and Jehovah gave them unto me.
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And I turned and came down from the mountain , and put the tables in the ark which I had made; -- and they are there, as Jehovah commanded me.
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(And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth-Bene-Jaakan to Moserah: there Aaron died , and there he was buried ; and Eleazar his son exercised the priesthood in his stead.
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From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of water -brooks.)
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At that time Jehovah separated the tribe of Levi , to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah , to stand before Jehovah to do service unto him, and to bless in his name , unto this day .
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Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren ; Jehovah is his inheritance , according as Jehovah thy God told him.
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But I stood upon the mountain according to the former days , forty days and forty nights ; and Jehovah listened unto me also at that time: Jehovah would not destroy thee.
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And Jehovah said unto me, Rise up , take thy journey before the people, that they may enter in and possess the land , which I swore 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, the heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to Jehovah thy God ; the earth and all that is therein.
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Only, Jehovah took pleasure in thy fathers , to love them, and he chose their seed after them, [even] you, out of all the peoples, as it is this day .
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Circumcise then the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.
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For Jehovah your God is the God of gods , and the Lord of lords , the great ùGod, the mighty and the terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward ;
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who executeth the judgment of the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and clothing .
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And ye shall love the stranger; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt .
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Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God ; him thou shalt serve , and unto him shalt thou cleave , and swear by his name .
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He is thy praise, and he is thy God , who hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen .
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With seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt ; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.