Deuteronomy 10
The Voice
10 Moses: Then the Eternal answered my prayer: “Cut out two stone tablets like the first ones, come back up the mountain to Me, and make a wooden chest. 2 I’ll write on those tablets the same words that were on the first ones, the ones you smashed into pieces, and you can put the new tablets in the chest you make.”
3 So I made a chest of acacia wood and cut out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went back up the mountain carrying the two tablets. 4 The Eternal engraved on them what He had engraved on the first ones: the Ten Directives the Eternal gave you on the day you gathered at the mountain when He spoke to you from inside the fire. He gave the new tablets to me, 5 and I came back down the mountain and put them in the chest I’d made, as the Eternal had commanded me. And they’re still there today.
When they make and worship the young bull idol, the people are breaking the first covenant at Horeb, the one the Lord makes with them when He speaks to them from inside the fire and gives them the Ten Directives. Moses signifies that this first covenant is null and void when he smashes the two stone tablets that are the official copies of the covenant terms. That covenant has been conditional on the people maintaining an exclusive allegiance to the Lord, and they have violated this essential requirement. Now, however, through the intercession of Moses, the people are accepted into a second, new covenant on the basis of His forgiveness and mercy. Its continuation is also conditional on their obedience, but its deepest foundation is a grace anticipating the new covenant God ultimately makes with us through Jesus.
6 The children of Israel had been staying by the wells that belong to the descendants of Jaakan. They moved from there to Moserah. There, Aaron died and was buried. His son, Eleazar, succeeded him as high priest. 7 The people then moved to Gudgodah, and then to Jotbathah where the land is watered by streams. 8 There the Eternal set apart the tribe of Levi under Eleazar’s new leadership to carry the covenant chest of the Eternal One to serve Him in His presence and to bless the people in His name, as they still do today. 9 That’s why the tribe of Levi doesn’t have any familial hereditary territory alongside the other tribes: the Eternal Himself is Levi’s inheritance, just as the Eternal your God told Levi He would be.
Moses: 10 I stayed on the mountain just as long as I had before, for 40 days and nights. The Eternal listened to my prayers once again and agreed not to destroy you. 11 He told me, “Stand up again—I’ve granted your request. Now go and lead the people the rest of the way, so they can enter and take possession of the land I promised their ancestors I’d give them.”
12 And now, Israel, what is the Eternal your God asking of you? Only that you fear Him, live as He wants you to, and love Him; serve Him with every part of you, heart and soul; 13 and obey His commands and rules, which I’m giving you today for your good.
14 Think of it—everything already belongs to the Eternal your God: the sky and His own dwelling place beyond the sky, the earth and everything on it. 15 Nevertheless He devotedly loved your ancestors; and out of all the peoples He chose you, their descendants, to be His own, as you still are today. 16 Cut away that hard covering around your heart, and do not harden your neck against me, 17 because the Eternal your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great and mighty and amazing God! He doesn’t favor the powerful, and He can’t be bribed.
The imagery of cutting the foreskin of one’s heart and not hardening the neck are graphic depictions of how God desires internal devotion to reflect external obedience.
18 He enforces His justice for the powerless, such as orphans and widows, and He loves foreigners, making sure they have food and clothing. 19 You must love those foreigners living with you in the same way. Remember how you were foreigners in the land of Egypt! 20 So fear the Eternal your God; serve Him, and be devoted to Him. Show your loyalty by swearing oaths only in His name. 21 He’s the One you must praise—He’s your God who has done such great and amazing things for you, as you’ve seen with your own eyes. 22 When your ancestors went into Egypt, there were only 70 people in their whole clan.[a] But He kept increasing your numbers, and now there are as many of you as there are stars in the sky!
Footnotes
申命记 10
Revised Chinese Union Version (Simplified Script) Shen Edition
摩西重新接受诫命(A)
10 “那时，耶和华对我说：‘你要凿出两块石版，和先前的一样，上山到我这里来。你也要造一个木柜。 2 我要把你先前摔碎的版上所写的字，写在这版上；你要把这版放在柜里。’ 3 于是我用金合欢木造了一个柜子，又凿出两块石版，和先前的一样。我手里拿着这两块版上山。 4 耶和华将那大会之日、在山上从火中所吩咐你们的十条诫命，照先前所写的写在这版上。耶和华把它们交给我。 5 我转身下山，将这版放在我所造的柜里，现今这版还在那里，正如耶和华所吩咐我的。
6 （以色列人从比罗比尼‧亚干[a]起行，来到摩西拉，亚伦死在那里，就葬在那里。他的儿子以利亚撒接续他担任祭司的职分。 7 他们从那里起行，来到谷歌大，又从谷歌大来到约巴他，有溪水之地。 8 那时，耶和华将利未支派分别出来，抬耶和华的约柜，又侍立在耶和华面前事奉他，奉他的名祝福，直到今日。 9 因此，利未没有像他的弟兄有产业，耶和华是他的产业，正如耶和华—你 神所应许他的。）
10 “我又像先前一样在山上停留了四十昼夜。这一次耶和华也应允我，不将你灭绝。 11 耶和华对我说：‘起来，走在百姓前面，领他们进去得我向他们列祖起誓要给他们的地。’”
神的要求
12 “以色列啊，现在耶和华—你的 神向你要的是什么呢？只要你敬畏耶和华—你的 神，遵行他一切的道，爱他，尽心尽性事奉耶和华—你的 神， 13 遵守耶和华的诫命律例，就是我今日所吩咐你的，为要使你得福。 14 看哪，天和天上的天，地和地上所有的，都属耶和华—你的 神。 15 然而，耶和华专爱你的列祖，爱他们，从万民中拣选你们，就是他们的后裔，像今日一样。 16 所以你们的心要受割礼，不可再硬着颈项。 17 因为耶和华—你们的 神是万神之神，万主之主，是伟大、强有力、可畏的 神，不看人的情面，也不受贿赂。 18 他为孤儿寡妇伸冤，爱护寄居的，赐给他衣食。 19 所以你们要爱护寄居的，因为你们在埃及地也作过寄居的。 20 你要敬畏耶和华—你的 神，事奉他，紧紧跟随他，奉他的名起誓。 21 他是你当赞美的，是你的 神，为你做了大而可畏的事，这些是你亲眼见过的。 22 你的列祖七十人下埃及，现在耶和华—你的 神却使你如同天上的星那样多。”
Footnotes
- 10．6 “比罗比尼‧亚干”或译“比尼‧亚干井”。
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