day of the assembly: and the L
ORD
gave them unto me.
5
And I turned myself and came down from
the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the L
ORD
commanded
me.
6
And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera:
there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in
his stead.
7
From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of
rivers of waters.
8
At that time the L
ORD
separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the L
ORD
,
to stand before the L
ORD
to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
9
Wherefore
Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the L
ORD
is
his inheritance, according as the
L
ORD
thy God promised him.
10
And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days
and forty nights; and the L
ORD
hearkened unto me at that time also,
and
the L
ORD
would not destroy
thee.
11
And the L
ORD
said unto me, Arise, take
thy
journey before the people, that they may go in
and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
12
And now, Israel, what doth the L
ORD
thy God require of thee, but to fear the L
ORD
thy God,
to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the L
ORD
thy God with all thy heart and with
all thy soul,
13
To keep the commandments of the L
ORD
, and his statutes, which I command thee
this day for thy good?
14
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens
is
the L
ORD
’S thy God, the
earth
also,
with all that therein
is.
15
Only the L
ORD
had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and
he chose their seed after them,
even
you above all people, as
it is
this day.
16
Circumcise therefore
the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
17
For the L
ORD
your God
is
God of gods,
and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh
reward:
18
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in
giving him food and raiment.
19
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land
of Egypt.
20
Thou shalt fear the L
ORD
thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave,
and swear by his name.
21
He
is
thy praise, and he
is
thy God, that hath done for thee these great
and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
22
Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore
and ten persons; and now the L
ORD
thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
CHAPTER 11
Therefore thou shalt love the L
ORD
thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments,
and his commandments, alway.
2
And know ye this day: for
I speak
not with your children which
have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the L
ORD
your God, his greatness,
his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
3
And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the
midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;
4
And what he did unto the
army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to
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