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"At that time the LORDsaid to me, 'Cut out for yourself twotablets of stone like the formerones, and come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood for yourself.
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"He wrote on the tablets, like the formerwriting, the TenCommandmentswhich the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the LORDgave them to me.
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(Now the sons of Israelset out from BeerothBene-jaakan to Moserah. ThereAarondied and there he was buried and Eleazar his sonministered as priest in his place.
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At that time the LORDsetapart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to standbefore the LORD to serve Him and to bless in His nameuntilthisday.
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"I, moreover, stayed on the mountainfortydays and fortynights like the firsttime, and the LORDlistened to me that timealso; the LORD was not willing to destroy you.
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"Then the LORDsaid to me, 'Arise, proceed on your journeyahead of the people, that they may go in and possess the landwhich I swore to their fathers to give them.'
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"Now, Israel, what does the LORD your Godrequire from you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
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"Yet on your fathers did the LORDset His affection to love them, and He chose their descendantsafter them, even you aboveallpeoples, as it is thisday.
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"For the LORD your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesomeGodwho does not showpartiality*nortake a bribe.