1 In die tyd het die HERE vir my gesê: Kap vir jou twee kliptafels soos die eerstes en klim op die berg na My toe; maak vir jou ook 'n ark van hout.

2 En Ek sal op die tafels skrywe die woorde wat op die eerste tafels was, wat jy verbrysel het; en jy moet dit in die ark sit.

3 Toe het ek 'n ark van akasiahout gemaak en twee kliptafels soos die eerstes gekap en op die berg geklim met die twee tafels in my hand.

4 En Hy het op die tafels, volgens die eerste skrif, die tien woorde geskrywe wat die HERE op die dag van die vergadering by die berg uit die vuur met julle gespreek het; en die HERE het dit aan my gegee.

5 En ek het omgedraai en van die berg afgeklim en die tafels in die ark gesit wat ek gemaak het; en dit was daar, soos die HERE my beveel het.

6 En die kinders van Israel het van B,ërot Ben,-J äkan weggetrek na Mos,ra toe. Daar het A„ron gesterwe, en daar is hy begrawe; en sy seun Ele sar het die priesteramp in sy plek bedien.

7 Daarvandaan het hulle weggetrek na Gudgod, en van Gudgod na Jotbat, 'n land van waterstrome.

8 In die tyd het die HERE die stam van Levi afgesonder om die verbondsark van die HERE te dra, om voor die aangesig van die HERE in sy diens te staan en in sy Naam te seën tot vandag toe.

9 Daarom het Levi geen deel of erfenis saam met sy broers nie; die HERE is sy erfdeel, soos die HERE jou God hom beloof het.

10 En ,k het op die berg gestaan soos die vorige dae, veertig dae en veertig nagte lank; en die HERE het my ook die keer verhoor; die HERE wou jou nie in die verderf stort nie.

11 Maar die HERE het vir my gesê: Staan op, gaan heen om voor die volk uit verder te trek, dat hulle kan inkom en die land in besit neem wat Ek aan hulle vaders met 'n eed beloof het om aan hulle te gee.

12 En nou, Israel, wat eis die HERE jou God van jou as net om die HERE jou God te vrees, in al sy weë te wandel en Hom lief te hê en die HERE jou God te dien met jou hele hart en met jou hele siel,

13 om te hou die gebooie van die HERE en sy insettinge wat ek jou vandag beveel, dat dit met jou goed kan gaan?

14 Kyk, aan die HERE jou God behoort die hemel, ook die hoogste hemel, die aarde en alles wat daarin is.

15 Maar net aan jou vaders het die HERE 'n welgevalle gehad om hulle lief te hê, en Hy het julle, hulle nageslag n hulle, uit al die volke uitverkies, soos dit vandag is.

16 Besny dan die voorhuid van julle hart en verhard julle nek nie verder nie.

17 Want die HERE julle God is die God van die gode en die HERE van die here; die grote, magtige en gedugte God wat die persoon nie aansien en geen geskenk aanneem nie;

18 wat reg verskaf aan die wees en die weduwee, en die vreemdeling liefhet, sodat Hy hom brood en klere gee.

19 Daarom moet julle die vreemdeling liefhê, want julle was vreemdelinge in Egipteland.

20 Die HERE jou God moet jy vrees, Hom moet jy dien en Hom moet jy aanhang en by sy Naam sweer.

21 Hy is jou lof, en Hy is jou God wat hierdie groot en vreeslike dinge wat jou oë gesien het, aan jou gedoen het.

22 Sewentig siele sterk het jou vaders na Egipte afgetrek, maar nou het die HERE jou God jou gemaak soos die sterre van die hemel in menigte.

1 At that time the Lord said to me, Make two other stones, cut like the first two, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

2 And I will put on the stones the words which were on the first stones which were broken by you, and you are to put them into the ark.

3 So I made an ark of hard wood, and had two stones cut like the others, and went up the mountain with the stones in my hands.

4 And he put on the stones, as in the first writing, the ten rules which the Lord gave you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the great meeting: and the Lord gave the stones to me.

5 And turning round I came down from the mountain and put the stones in the ark which I had made; and there they are as the Lord gave me orders.

6 (And the children of Israel went on from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah: there death came to Aaron and he was put to rest in the earth; and Eleazar, his son, took his place as priest.

7 From there they went on to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of streams of water.

8 At that time the Lord had the tribe of Levi marked out to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, to be before the Lord and to do his work and to give blessings in his name, to this day.

9 For this reason Levi has no part or heritage for himself among his brothers: the Lord is his heritage, as the Lord your God said to him.)

10 And I was in the mountain, as at the first time, for forty days and forty nights; and again the ears of the Lord were open to my prayer, and he did not send destruction on you.

11 Then the Lord said to me, Get up and go on your journey before the people, so that they may go in and take the land which I said in my oath to their fathers that I would give them.

12 And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul,

13 Doing the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws which I give you this day for your good?

14 The Lord your God is ruler of heaven, of the heaven of heavens, and of the earth with everything in it.

15 But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day.

16 Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:

18 Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.

19 So be kind to the man from a strange country who is living among you, for you yourselves were living in a strange country in the land of Egypt.

20 Let the fear of the Lord your God be before you, give him worship and be true to him at all times, taking your oaths in his name.

21 He is your God, the God of your praise, your God who has done for you all these works of power which your eyes have seen.

22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.