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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 10
Tables of stone containing Ten Commandments placed in ark—All that
God required is that Israel love and serve him—How great and mighty is
the Lord!
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1 AT that time the LORD
said unto me, Hew thee two atables of stone like unto the
first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an
bark of wood.
2 And I will awrite on the tables
the words that were in the first tables bwhich thou brakest,
and thou shalt put them in the ark.
3 And I made an ark of
ashittim wood, and hewed two btables of
stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables
in mine hand.
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4 And he awrote on the tables,
according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake
unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the
assembly: and the LORD 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 LORD commanded me.
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6 ¶ And the children of Israel took their journey
from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there
aAaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his
son ministered in the priest's office in his
steada.
7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from
Gudgodah to aJotbath, a land of brivers
of waters.
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6a Eleazer his son ministered in the
priest's office in his stead This was and would become a
shadow of what was done in heaven (Lev. 16:32). That is, Jehovah did become
our ministering high priest and God,
having been selected and annointed with the power and priesthood of God the
Father to be our ministering God of this estate to act for and in behalf of
the Father in his stead in all things so pertaining thereunto.
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8 ¶ At that time the LORD
aseparated the tribe of bLevi, to
cbear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before
the LORD to minister unto him, and to dbless in his name,
unto this day.
9 Wherefore aLevi hath no
bpart nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is
his cinheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised
him.
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10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy
ajourney before the people, that they may go in and possess
the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
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12 ¶ And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God
arequire of thee, but to bfear the LORD
thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to
cserve the LORD thy God with all thy
dheart and with all thy soul,
13 To keep the acommandments of the
LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy
bgood?
14 Behold, the heaven and the
aheaven of heavens is the LORD's thy God, the
bearth also, with call that
therein is.
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15 aOnly the LORD had a delight in
thy fathers to blove them, and he cchose
their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this
day.
16 aCircumcise therefore the
foreskin of your bheart, and be no more
cstiffnecked.
17 For the LORD your aGod is
bGod of gods, and cLord of lords, a great
God, a mighty, and a terrible, dwhich
eregardeth not persons, nor taketh
freward:
18 He adoth execute the judgment of
the fatherless and widow, and bloveth the
cstranger, in giving him dfood and
raiment.
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19 aLove ye therefore the
bstranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou
serve, and to him shalt thou acleave, and
bswear by his name.
21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God,
that hath done for thee these agreat and terrible things,
which thine eyes have seen.
22 Thy afathers went down into
Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made
thee as the bstars of heaven for multitude.
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