Third Millennium Bible TMB
GOD'S WORD Translation GW
1 "At that time the LORD said unto me, `Hew thee two tablets of stone like unto the first, and come up unto Me onto the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
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At that time the LORD said to me, "Cut two [more] stone tablets like the first ones, and come up to me on the mountain. Also make an ark out of wood.
2 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.'
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I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed. Then you will put them in the ark."
3 And I made an ark of shittim wood and hewed two tablets of stone like unto the first, and went up onto the mount, having the two tablets in mine hand.
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I made an ark out of acacia wood. I cut two [more] stone tablets like the first ones. I carried the two tablets up the mountain.
4 And He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the LORD spoke unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them unto me.
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The LORD wrote on these tablets the same words as before, the ten commandments. He had spoken these words to you from the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly. Then the LORD gave them to me.
5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me."
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I came back down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made. They are still there, where the LORD commanded me to put them.
6 (And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.
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The Israelites moved from the wells of the Jaakanites to Moserah. Aaron died there and was buried, and his son Eleazar succeeded him as priest.
7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of rivers of waters.
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They moved from there to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with rivers that don't dry up.
8 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 unto Him, and to bless in His name, unto this day.
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At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the LORD's promise, to stand in the LORD's presence when they serve him as priests, and to praise his name, as they still do today.
9 Therefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.)
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This is why the tribe of Levi has no land of their own as the other tribes have. The LORD your God is their only possession, as he promised them.
10 "And I stayed on the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
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I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights as I did the first time. Once again the LORD listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.
11 And the LORD said unto me, `Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore unto their fathers to give unto them.'
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The LORD said to me, "Lead the people on their journey. They will enter and take possession of the land I will give them, as I swore to their ancestors."
12 "And now, Israel, what doth 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,
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Israel, what does the LORD your God want you to do? He wants you to fear him, follow all his directions, love him, and worship him with all your heart and with all your soul.
13 to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I command thee this day for thy good?
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The LORD wants you to obey his commands and laws that I'm giving you today for your own good.
14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
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Remember that the sky, the highest heaven, the earth and everything it contains belong to the LORD your God.
15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them; and He chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
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The LORD set his heart on your ancestors and loved them. Because of this, today he chooses you, their descendants, out of all the people of the world.
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
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So circumcise your uncircumcised hearts, and don't be impossible to deal with any longer.
17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty and a fearsome, who regardeth not persons nor taketh reward.
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The LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, powerful, and awe-inspiring God. He never plays favorites and never takes a bribe.
18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger in giving him food and raiment.
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He makes sure orphans and widows receive justice. He loves foreigners and gives them food and clothes.
19 Love ye therefore the stranger, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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So you should love foreigners, because you were foreigners living in Egypt.
20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; Him shalt thou serve, and to Him shalt thou cleave and swear by His name.
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Fear the LORD your God, worship him, be loyal to him, and take your oaths in his name.
21 He is thy praise, and He is thy God, who hath done for thee these great and fearsome things which thine eyes have seen.
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He is your glory. He is your God, who did for you these spectacular and awe-inspiring deeds you saw with your own eyes.
22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons, and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
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When your ancestors went to Egypt, there were 70 of them. Now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
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