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1 At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark.
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"At that time ADONAI said to me, 'Cut yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, come up to me on the mountain, and make yourself an ark of wood.
2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the ark.”
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I will inscribe on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to put them in the ark.'
3 So I made the ark out of acacia wood and chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.
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So I made an ark of acacia-wood and cut two stone tablets like the first, then climbed the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.
4 The LORD wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments he had proclaimed to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.
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He inscribed the tablets with the same inscription as before, the Ten Words which ADONAI proclaimed to you from the fire on the mountain the day of the assembly; and ADONAI gave them to me.
5 Then I came back down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD commanded me, and they are there now.
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I turned, came down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made; and there they remain; as ADONAI ordered me.
6 (The Israelites traveled from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest.
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"The people of Isra'el traveled from the wells of B'nei-Ya'akan to Moserah, where Aharon died and was buried; and El'azar his son took his place, serving in the office of cohen.
7 From there they traveled to Gudgodah and on to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.
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From there they traveled to Gudgod, and from Gudgod to Yotvatah, a region with running streams.
8 At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister and to pronounce blessings in his name, as they still do today.
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At that time ADONAI set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark for the covenant of ADONAI and to stand before ADONAI to serve him and to bless in his name, as they still do today.
9 That is why the Levites have no share or inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the LORD is their inheritance, as the LORD your God told them.)
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This is why Levi has no share or inheritance with his brothers; ADONAI is his inheritance, as ADONAI your God had said to him.
10 Now I had stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I did the first time, and the LORD listened to me at this time also. It was not his will to destroy you.
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"I stayed on the mountain forty days and nights, as previously; and ADONAI listened to me that time too -ADONAI would not destroy you.
11 “Go,” the LORD said to me, “and lead the people on their way, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.”
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Then ADONAI said to me, 'Get up, and go on your way at the head of the people, so that they can enter and take possession of the land I swore to their ancestors that I would give them.'
12 And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
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"So now, Isra'el, all that ADONAI your God asks from you is to fear ADONAI your God, follow all his ways, love him and serve ADONAI your God with all your heart and all your being;
13 and to observe the LORD’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
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to obey, for your own good, the mitzvot and regulations of ADONAI which I am giving you today.
14 To the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.
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See, the sky, the heaven beyond the sky, the earth and everything on it all belong to ADONAI your God.
15 Yet the LORD set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today.
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Only ADONAI took enough pleasure in your ancestors to love them and choose their descendants after them -yourselves -above all peoples, as he still does today.
16 Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer.
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Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your heart; and don't be stiffnecked any longer!
17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes.
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For ADONAI your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty and awesome God, who has no favorites and accepts no bribes.
18 He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.
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He secures justice for the orphan and the widow; he loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
19 And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.
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Therefore you are to love the foreigner, since you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
20 Fear the LORD your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name.
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You are to fear ADONAI your God, serve him, cling to him and swear by his name.
21 He is the one you praise; he is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes.
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He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which you have seen with your own eyes.
22 Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
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Your ancestors went down into Egypt with only seventy people, but now ADONAI your God has made your numbers as many as the stars in the sky!
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