The Second Pair of Tablets^(A)

10 “At that time the Lord said to me, ^[a]‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an ^(B)ark of wood. ² And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and ^(C)you shall put them in the ark.’

³ “So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. ⁴ And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten ^[b]Commandments, ^(D)which the Lord had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me. ⁵ Then I turned and ^(E)came down from the mountain, and ^(F)put the tablets in the ark which I had made; ^(G)and there they are, just as the Lord commanded me.”

⁶ (Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron ^(H)died, and where he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his ^[c]stead. ^7 (I)From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of ^[d]rivers of water. ⁸ At that time ^(J)the Lord ^[e]separated the tribe of Levi ^(K)to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, ^(L)to stand before the Lord to minister to Him and ^(M)to bless in His name, to this day. ^9 (N)Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, just as the Lord your God promised him.)

¹⁰ “As at the first time, ^(O)I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; ^(P)the Lord also heard me at that time, and the Lord chose not to destroy you. ^11 (Q)Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, begin your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’

The Essence of the Law

¹² “And now, Israel, ^(R)what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to ^(S)love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹³ and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today ^(T)for your ^[f]good? ¹⁴ Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the ^(U)Lord your God, also the earth with all that is in it. ¹⁵ The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their ^[g]descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day. ¹⁶ Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your ^(V)heart, and be ^(W)stiff-necked^[h] no longer. ¹⁷ For the Lord your God is ^(X)God of gods and ^(Y)Lord of lords, the great God, ^(Z)mighty and awesome, who ^(AA)shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. ^18 (AB)He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. ¹⁹ Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. ^20 (AC)You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name. ²¹ He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen. ²² Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.

Honor the Father and the Son

¹⁶ For this reason the Jews ^(A)persecuted Jesus, ^[a]and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. ¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, ^(B)“My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.”

¹⁸ Therefore the Jews ^(C)sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, ^(D)making Himself equal with God. ¹⁹ Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, ^(E)the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. ²⁰ For ^(F)the Father loves the Son, and ^(G)shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. ²¹ For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, ^(H)even so the Son gives life to whom He will. ²² For the Father judges no one, but ^(I)has committed all judgment to the Son, ²³ that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. ^(J)He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

Life and Judgment Are Through the Son

²⁴ “Most assuredly, I say to you, ^(K)he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, ^(L)but has passed from death into life. ²⁵ Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when ^(M)the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live. ²⁶ For ^(N)as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have ^(O)life in Himself, ²⁷ and ^(P)has given Him authority to execute judgment also, ^(Q)because He is the Son of Man. ²⁸ Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will ^(R)hear His voice ^29 (S)and come forth—^(T)those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. ^30 (U)I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because ^(V)I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.