Deuteronomy

Thereupon יהוה said to me, “Carve out two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain; and make an ark of wood.

I will inscribe on the tablets the commandments that were on the first tablets that you smashed, and you shall deposit them in the ark.”

I made an ark of acacia wood and carved out two tablets of stone like the first; I took the two tablets with me and went up the mountain.

After inscribing on the tablets the same text as on the first—the Ten Commandments that יהוה addressed to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the Assembly— יהוה gave them to me.

Then I left and went down from the mountain, and I deposited the tablets in the ark that I had made, where they still are, as יהוה had commanded me.

From Beeroth-bene-jaakan Num. 33.31–32. the Israelites marched to Moserah. Aaron died there and was buried there; and his son Eleazar became priest in his stead.

From there they marched to Gudgod, Gudgod “Hor-haggidgad” in Num. 33.32–33. and from Gudgod to Jotbath, a region of running brooks.

At that time יהוה set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the Ark of יהוה’s Covenant, to stand in attendance upon יהוה, and to bless in God’s name, as is still the case.

That is why Levi has received no hereditary portion along with its kin: יהוה is its portion, as your God יהוה spoke concerning it.

I had stayed on the mountain, as I did the first time, forty days and forty nights; and יהוה heeded me once again: יהוה agreed not to destroy you.

And יהוה said to me, “Up, resume the march at the head of the people, that they may go in and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”

And now, O Israel, what does your God יהוה demand of you? Only this: to revere your God יהוה, to walk only in divine paths, to love and to serve your God יהוה with all your heart and soul,

keeping יהוה’s commandments and laws, which I enjoin upon you today, for your good.

Mark, the heavens to their uttermost reaches ” belong to your God יהוה, the earth and all that is on it!

Yet it was to your ancestors that יהוה was drawn out of love for them, so that you, their lineal descendants, were chosen from among all peoples—as is now the case.

Cut away, therefore, the thickening about your hearts and stiffen your necks no more.

For your God יהוה is God supreme and Lord supreme, ” Heb. ’adon (“lord”) normally denotes a man in a position of authority. Here it is used to claim that Israel’s God is beyond the men who sit atop the social hierarchies of rank and gender. the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who shows no favor and takes no bribe,

but upholds the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and befriends the stranger, providing food and clothing.—

You too must befriend the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

You must revere יהוה: only your God shall you worship, to [God] shall you hold fast, and by God’s name shall you swear.

[ יהוה ] is your glory and your God, who wrought for you those marvelous, awesome deeds that you saw with your own eyes.

Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy persons; and now your God יהוה has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.