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Deuteronomy chapter 10

At that time told me, ‘Cut two like the first ones, and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a .I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the first tablets — the ones you smashed — and you will put them in the chest.’So I made a chest out of , cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.He wrote on the tablets the same thing he had written before — the he had spoken to you from the fire on the day of the — and Yahweh gave them to me.Then I came back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the chest I had made, and that is where they have been, just as Yahweh told me.(The Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. Aaron died there and was buried there, and his son Eleazar after him.From there they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with flowing streams.At that time Yahweh the tribe of Levi to carry the , to stand before Yahweh serving him, and to in his name — and they still do all of this today.That is why Levi has no share or with his brothers — Yahweh himself is their inheritance, just as Yahweh your God promised them.)Now I stayed on the mountain , just like the first time, and Yahweh listened to me that time too — Yahweh chose not to destroy you.Then Yahweh said to me, ‘Get up and lead the people on their journey, so they can go in and take possession of the land I to give to their ancestors.’So now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God ask of you? Just this: to Yahweh your God, to , to love him, to serve Yahweh your God ,and to keep Yahweh’s that I am giving you today — .Look — the heavens belong to Yahweh your God, even , along with the earth and everything in it.Yet it was your ancestors that Yahweh and loved, and he chose you — their descendants — out of all the peoples on earth. And that is still true today.So and stop being so .Because Yahweh your God is the and the — the great God, mighty and awe-inspiring, who and .He makes sure get justice, and he loves the , giving them food and clothing.So you must love the foreigner too, because you were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. Yahweh your God. Serve him. . And when you make a , do it in his name.He is the one you should . He is your God, who did those great and for you that you saw with your own eyes.Your ancestors went down to Egypt as just , and now Yahweh your God has made you .