At that time Jehovah said to me, Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first ones, and come up to Me on the mountain; and make yourself an ark of wood.

And I will write upon the tablets the words which were on the first tablets, which you shattered; and you shall place them in the Ark.

So I made an ark of acacia wood and cut two tablets of stone like the first ones; and I went up to the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

And He wrote upon the tablets as He had done the first writing, the ten  ¹commandments, which Jehovah spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and Jehovah gave them to me.

Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and I placed the tablets in the Ark that I had made. And there they have been, as Jehovah commanded me.

(And the children of Israel set out from  ¹Beeroth Bene-jaakan for Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son served as priest in his place.

From there they set out for Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of waterbrooks.

At that time Jehovah separated the tribe of Levi to bear the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah to minister to Him and bless in His name until this day.

Therefore Levi has  ¹no portion nor inheritance with his brothers;  ¹Jehovah is his inheritance, as Jehovah your God promised him.)

And I stayed on the mountain, as I had the first time, forty days and forty nights. And Jehovah listened to me in that instance as well; Jehovah would not destroy you.

And Jehovah said to me, Arise, take up the journey before the people so that they may enter and possess the land which I have sworn to their fathers to give them.

And now, O Israel, what does Jehovah your God ask of you except that you fear Jehovah your God so that you would walk in all His  ¹ways and  ²love Him and serve Jehovah your God with all your  ³heart and with all your soul;

So that you would keep the commandments of Jehovah and His statutes, which I am commanding you today, for your good.

Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to Jehovah your God, the earth and all that is in it.

But on your fathers Jehovah set His affection to love them and to choose their seed after them, that is, you above all the peoples, as it is this day.

Circumcise then the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stiff-necked any longer;

For it is Jehovah your God who is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who does not regard persons and does not take bribes;

He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and He loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

Therefore love the sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

You shall fear Jehovah your God; Him shall you serve and to Him shall you hold fast and by His name shall you swear.

He is your praise and He is your God, who has done these great and awesome things for you, which your eyes have seen.

Your fathers went down into Egypt as seventy souls; and now Jehovah your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.

Therefore you shall love Jehovah your God and keep His charge and His statutes and His ordinances and His commandments always.

And realize today that I am speaking not with your sons, who do not know and who have not seen the discipline of Jehovah your God, His greatness, His mighty hand and His outstretched arm;

And His signs and works, which He did in the midst of Egypt against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and against all his land;

And what He did to Egypt's forces, to their horses and to their chariots, when He caused the water of the Red Sea to flow over them while they were pursuing you; and Jehovah made them perish to this day;

And what He did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place;

And what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up and their households and their tents and all their substance that went with them, from the midst of all Israel.

But it is your eyes that have seen all the great work of Jehovah which He did.

Therefore you shall keep the whole commandment which I am commanding you today so that you may be  ¹strong and that you may go in and possess the land into which you are crossing over to possess,

And so that you may extend your days upon the ground which Jehovah swore to your fathers, to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.

For the land which you are entering in to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came forth, where you used to sow your seed and  ¹water by foot as in a vegetable garden.

But the land into which you are crossing over to possess is a land of mountains and valleys; by virtue of heaven's rain, it drinks in water.

It is a land which Jehovah your God cares for; always the  ¹eyes of Jehovah your God are upon it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.

And if you are certain to listen to my commandments, which I am commanding you today, to love Jehovah your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

I will give rain for your land in its season, the  ¹early rain and the late rain, so that you may gather your grain and your new wine and your fresh oil.

And I will put grass in your field for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.

Be careful lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and bow down to them,

And the anger of Jehovah burn against you and He shut up heaven, so that there is no rain and the earth does not yield its produce and you perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah is giving you.

Therefore you shall  ¹lay these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them on your hand as a sign, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes;

And you shall teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit in your house and when you journey on the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up;

And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates;

That your days may be multiplied, as well as the days of your children, upon the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the days of heaven are above the earth.

For if you are certain to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him,

Jehovah will dispossess all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.

Every place on which the sole of your foot treads will be yours; from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the  ¹farmost sea will be your territory.

No man will be able to stand against you; Jehovah your God will put the dread and fear of you upon all the land on which you tread, as He has spoken to you.

See, I am setting before you today a  ¹blessing and a  ¹curse:

The blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you today;

And the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God and you turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, to go after other gods whom you have not known.

And when Jehovah your God brings you into the land which you are entering to possess, you shall put the blessing upon Mount Gerizim and the curse upon Mount Ebal.

Indeed they are across the Jordan beyond the western road in the land of the Canaanites, who dwell in the Arabah before Gilgal beside the terebinths of Moreh.

For you are about to cross over the Jordan to enter and possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving you; and you will possess it and dwell in it.

Therefore be certain to do all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today.

These are the statutes and the ordinances that you shall be certain to do in the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.

You shall completely  ¹destroy all the places where the nations whom you will dispossess have served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every flourishing tree.

And you shall tear down their altars and crush their pillars; and their Asherahs you shall burn with fire, and the idols of their gods you shall cut down; and you shall destroy their name from that place.

You shall not do so to Jehovah your God.

But to the place which Jehovah your God will  ¹choose out of all your tribes to put His  ¹name, to His  ¹habitation, shall you seek, and there shall you go.

And there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and the heave offering of your hand and your vows and your freewill offerings and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock;

And there you shall eat before Jehovah your God, and you and your households shall rejoice in all your undertakings, in which Jehovah your God has blessed you.

You shall not do according to all that we do here today, each man doing all that is right in his own eyes;

For until now you have not come to the rest and to the inheritance that Jehovah your God is giving you.

But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance, and when He gives you rest from all your enemies surrounding you so that you dwell securely;

Then to the place where Jehovah your God will choose to cause His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the heave offering of your hand and all your choice vows which you vow to Jehovah.

And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, you and your sons and daughters, and your male servants and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

Be careful that you do not offer up your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

But in the place which Jehovah will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer up your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.

Yet you may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates, in all that your soul desires, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat it as the gazelle and the deer are eaten.

However, you shall not eat the  ¹blood; you shall pour it out upon the earth like water.

You may not  ¹eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or of your new wine or of your fresh oil, nor the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vows which you vow or of your freewill offerings or of the heave offering of your hand;

But you shall eat them before Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male servant and female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God in all your undertakings.

Be careful that you do not forsake the Levite all your days upon the earth.

When Jehovah your God enlarges your territory, as He has promised you, and you say, I will eat meat, because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat according to all that your soul desires.

If the place where Jehovah your God will choose to put His name is too far away from you, you may slaughter from your herd and from your flock, which Jehovah has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates according to all that your soul desires;

Indeed, as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat it; the unclean and the clean may eat it alike.

But make sure that you do not eat the  ¹blood; for the blood is the  ²life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out upon the earth like water.

You shall not eat it, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of Jehovah.

But you shall take your holy things which you have and your vows, and go to the place which Jehovah will choose;

And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Jehovah your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of Jehovah your God, and you shall eat the flesh.

Keep and listen to all these words which I am commanding you so that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of Jehovah your God.

When Jehovah your God cuts off the nations before you, which you are entering to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,

Be careful that you are not ensnared in following them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not seek after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods, so that I also may do likewise?

You shall not do so for Jehovah your God, for every abomination to Jehovah, which He hates, they have done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burned with fire to their gods.

The whole thing that I am commanding you, you shall be certain to do; you shall not add to it, nor shall you take away from it.