Deuteronomy 10-11

Legacy Standard Bible

The Tablets Rewritten

10 “At that time Yahweh said to me, ‘^(A)Carve out for yourself two tablets of stone like the former ones, and come up to Me on the mountain, and ^(B)make an ark of wood for yourself. ^2 (C)And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered, and ^(D)you shall put them in the ark.’ ³ So ^(E)I made an ark of acacia wood and ^(F)carved out two tablets of stone like the former ones and went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. ⁴ And He wrote on the tablets, like the former writing, ^(G)the Ten ^[a]Commandments ^(H)which Yahweh had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire ^(I)on the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to me. ⁵ Then I turned and ^(J)came down from the mountain and ^(K)put the tablets in the ark which I had made; ^(L)and there they are, as Yahweh commanded me.”

⁶ (Now the sons of Israel set out from ^[b]Beeroth ^(M)Bene-jaakan to Moserah. ^(N)There Aaron died, and there he was buried, and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his place. ^7 (O)From there they set out to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. ^8 (P)At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh ^(Q)to minister for Him and to bless in His name to this day. ^9 (R)Therefore, Levi does not have a portion or inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, just as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)

¹⁰ “^(S)I, moreover, stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights like the first time, and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh was not willing to destroy you. ¹¹ Then Yahweh said to me, ‘Arise, go on your journey ahead of the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’

Circumcise Your Heart

¹² “^(T)So now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God ask from you, but to ^[c]fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all His ways and ^(U)love Him, and to serve Yahweh your God with ^(V)all your heart and with all your soul, ¹³ and to keep the commandments of Yahweh and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good? ¹⁴ Behold, ^(W)to Yahweh your God belong heaven and the ^[d]highest heavens, ^(X)the earth and all that is in it. ^15 (Y)Yet on your fathers did Yahweh set His affection to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as it is this day. ^16 (Z)So circumcise ^[e]your heart, and ^(AA)stiffen your neck no longer. ^17 (AB)For Yahweh your God is the God of gods and the ^(AC)Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the fearsome God ^(AD)who does not show partiality nor ^(AE)take a bribe. ¹⁸ He executes justice for ^(AF)the orphan and the widow, and shows love for the sojourner by giving him food and clothing. ^19 (AG)So show love for the sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. ²⁰ Yahweh your God you shall fear; Him you shall serve, and to Him you shall ^(AH)cling, and by His name ^(AI)you shall swear. ²¹ He is ^(AJ)your praise, and He is your God, who has done these great and fearsome things for you which your eyes have seen. ^22 (AK)Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons in all, ^(AL)and now Yahweh your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Love and Serve Yahweh

11 “You shall therefore ^(AM)love Yahweh your God, and ^(AN)keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments all your days. ² So know this day ^(AO)that I am not speaking with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the ^[f]discipline of Yahweh your God—His greatness, His strong hand and His outstretched arm, ³ and ^(AP)His signs and His works which He did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land; ⁴ and what He did to Egypt’s army, to its horses and its chariots, ^(AQ)when He made the water of the ^[g]Red Sea to ^[h]engulf them while they were pursuing you, and Yahweh made them perish ^[i]utterly; ⁵ and what He did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place; ⁶ and ^(AR)what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and ^(AS)every living thing that ^[j]followed them, among all Israel— ⁷ but your own eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which He did.

⁸ “You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today, ^(AT)so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land into which you are about to cross to possess it; ^9 (AU)so that you may prolong your days on the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, ^(AV)a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁰ For the land, into which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came out, where you used to sow your seed and water it with your ^[k]foot like a vegetable garden. ¹¹ But ^(AW)the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven, ¹² a land for which Yahweh your God cares; ^(AX)the eyes of Yahweh your God are always on it, from the ^[l]beginning even to the end of the year.

¹³ “And it will be that, ^(AY)if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, ^(AZ)to love Yahweh your God and to serve Him ^(BA)with all your heart and all your soul, ¹⁴ that ^[m](BB)I, Yahweh, will give the rain for your land in its season, the ^[n](BC)early and ^[o]late rains, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil. ^15 (BD)And ^[p]I will give ^[q]grass in your fields for your cattle, and ^(BE)you will eat and be satisfied. ^16 [r](BF)Beware lest your hearts be deceived, and you turn away and serve other gods and worship them, ¹⁷ and ^(BG)the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and He will ^(BH)shut up the heavens ^(BI)so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and ^(BJ)you will perish quickly from the good land which Yahweh is giving you.

¹⁸ “^(BK)You shall therefore place these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as ^[s]phylacteries between your eyes. ^19 (BL)And you shall teach them to your sons, speaking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up. ^20 (BM)And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, ²¹ so that ^(BN)your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as ^[t](BO)long as the heavens remain above the earth. ²² For if you are ^(BP)careful to keep this entire commandment which I am commanding you to do, ^(BQ)to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all His ways, and to ^(BR)cling to Him, ²³ then Yahweh will ^(BS)dispossess all these nations from before you, and you will ^(BT)dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. ^24 (BU)Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; ^(BV)your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the ^[u]western sea. ^25 (BW)No man will be able to stand before you; Yahweh your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you on all the land on which you set foot, as He has spoken to you.

A Blessing and a Curse

²⁶ “^(BX)See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: ²⁷ the ^(BY)blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I am commanding you today; ²⁸ and the ^(BZ)curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, by walking after other gods which you have not known.

²⁹ “And it will be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, ^(CA)that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. ³⁰ Are they not across the Jordan, west of the way toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite ^(CB)Gilgal, beside ^(CC)the ^[v]oaks of Moreh? ³¹ For you are about to cross the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God is giving you, and ^(CD)you shall possess it and live in it, ³² and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today.