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    Deuteronomy 10

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    Aaron dies in the middle of a travel list, and the list carries on: Moserah, burial, Eleazar succeeding him, Gudgodah, Jotbathah. The prose scarcely breaks stride for a death, which is a remarkably brisk way to pass a grave.

    The second tabletsvv. 1–5

    The LORD sends the speaker back up the mountain with a pair of replacement tablets and an ark to contain them. The first tablets were broken; these are made afresh, with the same words written again by the LORD. Down the mountain the speaker comes, and the tablets are put away in the acacia ark, where they remain.

    A journey with a death in itvv. 6–11

    The Israelites travel from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron dies and is buried; Eleazar succeeds him as priest. Then the route proceeds to Gudgodah and Jotbathah, the latter distinguished by its streams of water. Levi is set apart to carry the ark, stand before the LORD, serve Him, and pronounce blessings, while having no portion among the other tribes: the LORD is Levi’s inheritance. After forty days and nights on the mountain, the speaker is heard again, and is told to lead the people onward into the land promised to their fathers.

    The great God and the small administrative detailvv. 12–22

    Israel is asked for a life of fear, love, service, and obedience, though the LORD already owns the highest heavens, the earth, and everything in it. The cosmic scale is followed by the close-grained business of justice: no partiality, no bribe, justice for the fatherless and widow, food and clothing for the foreigner. Israel is told to love the foreigner because Israel once lived as foreigners in Egypt. Then comes the chapter’s splendid bodily instruction: “Circumcise your hearts” and no more stiff necks. The ending counts the fathers who went down to Egypt—seventy—and the descendants now made as numerous as the stars.

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    1. Deut 10:1At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

    2. Deut 10:2And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to place them in the ark.”

    3. Deut 10:3So I made an ark of acacia wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

    4. Deut 10:4And the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me,

    5. Deut 10:5and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD had commanded me; and there they have remained.

    6. Deut 10:6The Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest.

    7. Deut 10:7From there they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.

    8. Deut 10:8At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to serve Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name, as they do to this day.

    9. Deut 10:9That is why Levi has no portion or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God promised him.

    10. Deut 10:10I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.

    11. Deut 10:11Then the LORD said to me, “Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”

    12. Deut 10:12And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

    13. Deut 10:13and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good?

    14. Deut 10:14Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.

    15. Deut 10:15Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.

    16. Deut 10:16Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.

    17. Deut 10:17For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.

    18. Deut 10:18He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

    19. Deut 10:19So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

    20. Deut 10:20You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.

    21. Deut 10:21He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.

    22. Deut 10:22Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

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    • 12Micah 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
    • 12Deuteronomy 6:5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
    • 12Luke 10:27He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
    • 12Deuteronomy 5:33You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
    • 12Mark 12:29–33Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
    • 17Acts 10:34Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,
    • 12Matthew 22:37Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
    • 17Romans 2:11For God does not show favoritism.
    • 16Jeremiah 4:4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”
    • 16Deuteronomy 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
    • 18Psalms 146:9The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
    • 12Jeremiah 32:39–40I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
    • 17Job 34:19who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
    • 17Daniel 2:47The king said to Daniel, “Your God is truly the God of gods and Lord of kings, the Revealer of Mysteries, since you were able to reveal this mystery.”
    • 20Deuteronomy 6:13Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.
    • 121 John 4:19–20We love because He first loved us.

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