1At that time the LORD said to me, 'Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden chest.
2I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke, and you are to put them in the chest.'
3So I made the chest out of acacia wood and cut two stone tablets like the first ones. I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.
4The LORD wrote on the tablets what he had written before — the Ten Commandments he had proclaimed to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. Then the LORD gave them to me.
5I turned, came down the mountain, and placed the tablets in the chest I had made. And they are still there, just as the LORD commanded.
6(The Israelites traveled from the wells of Bene-jaakan to Moserah. Aaron died there and was buried, and his son Eleazar became priest in his place.
7From there they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with flowing streams.
8At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the LORD's covenant, to stand before the LORD to minister, and to pronounce blessings in his name, as it is still done today.
9That is why the Levites have no share or inheritance among their brothers — the LORD is their inheritance, as the LORD your God told them.)
10As before, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, and the LORD heard me once again. He did not want to destroy you.
11The LORD said to me, 'Get up and resume the journey ahead of the people so they may enter and possess the land I swore to give their ancestors.'
12And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you? Only this: to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul,
13and to keep the LORD's commands and statutes I am giving you today for your own good.
14The heavens and the highest heavens belong to the LORD your God, as does the earth and everything in it.
15Yet the LORD set his heart in love on your ancestors and chose their descendants after them — you above all peoples, as it is today.
16Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stop being stubborn.
17For the LORD your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords — the great, mighty, and awesome God who is not partial and cannot be bribed.
18He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner, giving them food and clothing.
19You also must love the foreigner, since you were foreigners in Egypt.
20Fear the LORD your God. Serve him. Hold fast to him. Take your oaths in his name.
21He is your praise and your God, who has done these great and awesome things for you that your own eyes have seen.
22Your ancestors went down to Egypt as seventy people, but now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.