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At that time the LORD 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 in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark .
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And I made an ark of shittim wood , and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first , and went up into the mount , having the two tables in mine hand .
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And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing , the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly : and the LORD gave them unto me.
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And I turned myself and came down from the mount , and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
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And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: 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 Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
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At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi , to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD , to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name , unto this day .
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Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren ; the LORD is his inheritance , according as the LORD thy God promised him.
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And I stayed in the mount , according to the first time, forty days and forty nights ; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
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And the LORD said unto me, Arise , take thy journey before the people, that they may 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 the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God , to walk in all his ways , and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul ,
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To keep the commandments of the LORD , and his statutes , which I command thee this day for thy good ?
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Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD 's thy God , the earth also, with all that therein is.
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Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day .
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Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
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For the LORD your God is God of gods , and Lord of lords , a great God , a mighty , and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward :
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He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment .
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Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt .
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Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God ; him shalt thou serve , and to him shalt thou cleave , and swear by his name .
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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 the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.