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`At that time hath Jehovah said unto me, Grave for thee two tables of stone , like the first , and come up unto Me, into the mount , and thou hast made for thee an ark of wood ,
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and I write on the tables the words which were on the first tables, which thou hast broken , and thou hast placed them in the ark ;
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and I make an ark of shittim wood , and grave two tables of stone like the first , and go up to the mount , and the two tables in my hand .
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`And He writeth on the tables, according to the first writing , the Ten Matters, which Jehovah hath spoken unto you in the mount , out of the midst of the fire , in the day of the assembly , and Jehovah giveth them unto me,
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and I turn and come down from the mount , 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 sons of Israel have journeyed from Beeroth of the sons of Jaakan to Mosera, there Aaron died , and he is buried there, and Eleazar his son doth act as priest in his stead;
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thence they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water .
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`At that time hath Jehovah separated the tribe of Levi , to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah , to stand before Jehovah , to serve Him, and to bless in His name , unto this day ,
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therefore there hath not been to Levi a portion and inheritance with his brethren ; Jehovah Himself [is] his inheritance , as Jehovah thy God hath spoken to him.
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`And I -- I have stood in the mount , as the former days , forty days and forty nights , and Jehovah hearkeneth unto me also at that time; Jehovah hath not willed to destroy thee.
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`And Jehovah saith unto me, Rise , go to journey before the people, and they go in and possess the land which I have sworn to their fathers to give to them.
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`And now, Israel , what is Jehovah thy God asking from thee, except 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 commands of Jehovah , and His statutes which I am commanding thee to-day , for good to thee?
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`Lo, to Jehovah thy God [are] the heavens and the heavens of the heavens , the earth and all that [is] in it;
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only in thy fathers hath Jehovah delighted -- to love them, and He doth fix on their seed after them -- on you, out of all the peoples as [at] this day ;
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and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;
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for Jehovah your God -- He [is] God of the gods , and Lord of the lords ; God , the great , the mighty , and the fearful ; who accepteth not persons, nor taketh a bribe;
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He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner , to give to him bread and raiment .
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`And ye have loved the sojourner , for sojourners ye were in the land of Egypt .
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`Jehovah thy God thou dost fear , Him thou dost serve , and to Him thou dost cleave , and by His name thou dost swear .
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He [is] thy praise, and He [is] thy God , who hath done with thee these great and fearful [things] which thine eyes have seen :
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with seventy persons did thy fathers go down to Egypt , and now hath Jehovah thy God made thee as stars of the heavens for multitude.