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At that◦ time Jehovah said to▵ me, Carve··out◦ for thee two tablets of stone like the first , and come··up to▵ Me in the mountain , and make thee an ark of wood .
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And I will write on the tablets the Words that were on the first tablets which thou didst break , and thou shalt set them in the ark .
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And I made an ark of shittim* wood , and carved··out◦ two tablets of stone like the first , and went··up to▫ the mountain , and the two tablets were in my hand .
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And He wrote on the tablets , according··to the first writing , the Ten Words*, which Jehovah spoke to▵ you in the mountain out··of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly ; and Jehovah gave them to▵ me.
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And I turned ◦ and came··down from the mountain , and set the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as◦ Jehovah commanded me.
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And the sons of Israel journeyed from Beeroth of the sons of Jaakan to Moserah; there Aaron died , and there he was buried ; and Eleazar his son was··a··priest in his stead.
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From thence they journeyed to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of brooks of waters.
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At that◦ time Jehovah distinguished the tribe◦ of Levi , to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah , to stand before Jehovah to minister to Him, and to bless in His name , even··to this day .
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Therefore Levi has no part nor inheritance with his brothers ; Jehovah is his inheritance , according as Jehovah thy God spoke to him.
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And I▵ stood in the mountain , as in the first days , forty days and forty nights ; and Jehovah hearkened to▵ me at that◦ time◦ also, and Jehovah was· not ·willing to destroy thee.
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And Jehovah said to▵ me, Arise , go to journey before the people, that they may go ··in and possess the land , which I promised to their fathers to give to them.
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And now, Israel , what does Jehovah thy God ask from▵ 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 today for thy good ?
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Behold, the heavens and the heavens of heavens are Jehovah ’s thy God , the earth also, with all that is in it.
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Only Jehovah delighted▵ in thy fathers to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you above all the peoples, as it is this day .
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And circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and let your neck◦ be hardened no◦ more◦.
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For Jehovah your God , He◦ is God of gods , and Lord of lords , the great God ◦, the Hero, and the Fearsome, who accepts not faces*, nor takes a bribe;
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He makes judgment for the orphan and widow, and loves the sojourner , to give him bread and raiment .
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And love ye the sojourner ; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt .
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Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God ; Him thou shalt serve , and to Him thou shalt stick , and promise by His name .
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He is thy praise, and He is thy God , who has done for thee these great and fearsome things, which thine eyes have seen .
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Thy fathers went··down into Egypt with seventy souls ; and now Jehovah thy God has set thee as the stars of the heavens for multitude.