Deuteronomy
Chapter 10
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1At that time God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to me, Cut yourself two tablets of stone like the first ones, and come up to me on the mountain, and make yourself a chest of wood.
2I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke, and you shall put them in the chest.
3I made a chest of acacia wood, and I cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.
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Shittim is acacia, as in Exodus.
4He wrote on the tablets, like the first writing, the ten words that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. gave them to me.
5I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the chest that I had made, and they are there, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded me.
6The sons of Israel set out from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. Aaron died there, and he was buried there, and Eleazar his son served as priest in his place.
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This line sets the stages as Beeroth Bene-jaakan, then Moserah, and Aaron’s death there. Numbers 33 names Moseroth and Bene-jaakan in another order, and Mount Hor for Aaron’s death. Both lines are printed. Neither is rewritten to match the other.
7From there they set out to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of streams of water.
8At that time God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the chest of the A solemn agreement that binds God and people. of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., to stand before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. to serve him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
9Therefore Levi has had no share or inheritance with his brothers. God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. is his inheritance, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God spoke to him.
10I stood on the mountain as at the first days, forty days and forty nights, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. listened to me that time also. God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. was not willing to destroy you.
11God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to me, Get up, go on the journey before the people, and they shall go in and take possession of the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.
12Now, Israel, what does God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God ask from you, but to fear God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God with all your heart and with all your life,
13to keep the commands of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. and his Rules that are meant to last. that I am commanding you today, for your good?
14Look, to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God belong the sky and the highest sky, the earth and all that is in it.
15Only, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. attached himself to your fathers, to love them, and he chose their seed after them, you, out of all the peoples, as it is this day.
16Circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and do not stiffen your neck any more.
17For God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty and the dreaded, who does not lift a face and does not take a Money paid so that someone will do wrong.,
18who does right by the fatherless and the widow, and loves the A person living in a land that is not their own., giving him bread and a cloak.
19You shall love the A person living in a land that is not their own., for you were People living in a land that is not their own. in the land of Egypt.
20God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve. To him you shall hold fast, and by his name you shall swear.
21He is your praise, and he is your God, who did for you these great and dreaded things that your eyes have seen.
22With seventy persons your fathers went down to Egypt, and now God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God has made you like the stars of the sky for number.