Deuteronomy 10 · Parashat Eikev

At that time the Lord said to me, Hew for thyself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me into the mountain, and make for thyself an ark of wood.

And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which thou didst break, and thou shalt put them in the ark.

And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up to the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.

And he wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten Words, which the Lord spoke to you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them to me.

And I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they were, as the Lord commanded me.

And the children of Yisra᾽el took their journey from Be᾽erot-bene-ya῾aqan to Mosera: there Aharon died, and there he was buried; and El῾azar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his place.

From thence they journeyed to Gudgoda; and from Gudgoda to Yotvata, a land of streaming wadis.

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 to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.

Therefore Levi has no part or inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord thy God promised him.

And I stayed in the mountain, like the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the Lord hearkened to me at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy thee.

And the Lord said to me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them.

And now, Yisra᾽el, what does 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,

to keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens belongs to the Lord thy God, the earth also, with all that is on it.

Only the Lord took delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be stiffnecked no more.

For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, who favours no person, and takes no bribe:

he executes the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and raiment.

Love therefore the stranger: for you were strangers in the land of Miżrayim.

Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou hold fast, and swear by his name.

He is thy praise, and he is thy God, who has done for thee these great and terrible things, which thy eyes have seen.

Thy fathers went down to Miżrayim with seventy persons; and now the Lord thy God has made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.