Deuteronomy 10 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

The Second Pair of Tablets

The Second Pair of Stone Tablets

(Ex. 34:1–9 )

Deu 10:1“At that time the LORD said to me, ‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an ark of wood.

Deu 10:2

Deu 10:2‘And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you shall put them in the ark.’

Deu 10:3

Deu 10:3“So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.

Deu 10:4

Deu 10:4“And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the LORD had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me.

Deu 10:5

Deu 10:5“Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are, just as the LORD commanded me.”

Deu 10:6

Deu 10:6(Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron died, and where he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his stead.

Deu 10:7

Deu 10:7From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of rivers of water.

Deu 10:8

Deu 10:8At 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 to Him and to bless in His name, to this day.

Deu 10:9

Deu 10:9Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, just as the LORD your God promised him.)

Deu 10:10

Deu 10:10“As at the first time, I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; the LORD also heard me at that time, and the LORD chose not to destroy you.

Deu 10:11

Deu 10:11“Then the LORD said to me, ‘Arise, begin your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’

The Essence of the Law

Deu 10:12

Deu 10:12“And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deu 10:13

Deu 10:13“and to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I command you today for your good?

Deu 10:14

Deu 10:14“Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the LORD your God, also the earth with all that is in it.

Deu 10:15

Deu 10:15“The LORD delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.

Deu 10:16

Deu 10:16“Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer.

Deu 10:17

Deu 10:17“For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe.

Deu 10:18

Deu 10:18“He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.

Deu 10:19

Deu 10:19“Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Deu 10:20

Deu 10:20“You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name.

Deu 10:21

Deu 10:21“He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.

Deu 10:22

Deu 10:22“Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.

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