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Day 100 and 52
At that time, the Lord said to me, chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones.
Also make a wooden arc, a sacred chest to store them in.
Come up to me on the mountain and I will write on the tablets, the same
words that were on the ones you smashed.
Then placed the tablets in the arc, so I made an arc of Acacia wood and cut
two stone tablets like the first two.
Then I went up the mountain with the tablets in my hand.
Once again, the Lord wrote the 10 commandments on the
tablets and gave them to me.
They were the same words.
The Lord had spoken to you from the heart of the fire on the day you were
assembled at the foot of the mountain.
Then I turned and came down the mountain and placed the tablets in
the arc of the covenant, which I had made just as the Lord commanded me.
And the tablets are still there in the arc.
The people of Israel set out from the wells of the people of Akan and traveled
to Mora where Aaron died and was buried.
His son Eliezer ministered as high priest in his place.
Then they journeyed to gut goda and from there to jaha a land
with many Brooks and streams.
At that time, the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the arc
of the Lord's covenant and to stand before the Lord as his ministers and
to pronounce blessings in his name.
These are their duties to this day.
That is why the Levites have no share of property or possession of land
among the other Israelite tribes.
The Lord himself is their special possession as the Lord your God told them.
As for me, I stayed on the mountain in the Lord's presence for 40 days and
nights as I had done the first time, and once again, the Lord listened to
my pleas and agreed not to destroy you.
Then the Lord said to me, get up and resume the journey and lead the
people to the land I swore to give to their ancestors so they may take
possession of it and now is real.
What does the Lord your God require of you?
He requires only that you fear the Lord your God and live in a way that
pleases him and love him and serve him with all your heart and soul.
And you must always obey the Lord's commands and decrees that I am giving you
today for your own good look, the highest heavens and the earth and everything in
it all belonged to the Lord your God.
Yet the Lord chose your ancestors as the objects of his love.
He chose you, their descendants above all other nations, as is evident today.
Therefore, change your hearts and stop being stubborn for the Lord.
Your God is the God of Gods and Lord of lords.
He is the great God, the mighty and awesome God who shows no
partiality and cannot be bribed.
He ensures that orphans and widows receive justice.
He shows love to the foreigners living among you and gives them food and
clothing, so you too must show love to foreigners for you yourselves.
Were once foreigners in the land of Egypt, you must fear the Lord your God,
and worship him and clinging to him.
Your oaths must be in his name alone.
He alone is your God, the only one who is worthy of your praise, the one
who has done these mighty miracles that you have seen with your own eyes.
When your ancestors went down into Egypt, there were only 70 of them,
but now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars and the sky.
You must love the Lord your God and always obey his requirements,
decrees, regulations, and commands.
Keep in mind that I am not talking now to your children who have never
experienced the discipline of the Lord your God, or seeing his greatness
and his strong hand and powerful arm.
They didn't see the miraculous signs and wonders he performed in Egypt
against Pharaoh and all his land.
They didn't see what the Lord did to the armies of Egypt and to their horses
and chariots, how he drowned them in the Red Sea as they were chasing you.
He destroyed them and they have not recovered this very day.
Your children didn't see how the Lord cared for you in the
wilderness until you arrived here.
They didn't see what he did to Dathan and Ab Byram, the sons of Alaya, a descendant
of Reuben when the Earth opened its mouth in the Israelite camp and swallowed them
along with their households and tents and every living thing that belonged to them.
But you have seen the Lord perform all these mighty deeds with your own eyes.
Therefore, be careful to obey every command I am giving you today.
So you may have strength to go in and take over the land you are about to enter.
If you obey, you will enjoy a long life in the land the Lord swore to give to your
ancestors and to you their descendants.
The land flowing with milk and honey.
For the land you are about to enter and take over.
It's not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you planted your
seed and made irrigation ditches with your foot as in a vegetable garden.
Rather, the land you will soon take over as a land of hills and valleys
with plenty of rain, a land that the Lord your God cares for, he watches
over it through each season of the year.
If you carefully obey the commands I'm giving you today, And if you love the Lord
your God and serve him with all your heart and soul, then he will send the reigns in
their proper seasons, the early and late rains, so you can bring in your harvests
of grain, new wine, and olive oil.
He will give you lush pasture land for your livestock, and you yourselves
will have all you want to eat.
But be careful.
Don't let your heart be deceived so that you turn away from the Lord
and serve and worship other gods.
If you do, the Lord's anger will burn against you.
He will shut up the sky and hold back.
The rain and the ground will fail to produce its harvests.
Then you will quickly die and that good land the Lord is giving you.
So commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of mine.
Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders.
Teach them to your children.
Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you're
going to bed, and when you are getting up.
Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates so that as long
as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish.
And the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors.
Be careful to obey all these commands I am giving you.
Show love to the Lord your God, by walking in his ways and holding tightly to him.
Then the Lord will drive out all the nations ahead of you, though they are
much greater and stronger than you and you will take over their land.
Wherever you set foot, that land will be yours.
Your frontiers will stretch from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the
north and from the Euphrates River in the East to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
No one will be able to stand against you for the Lord.
Your God will cause the people to fear and dread you as he promised
wherever you go in the whole land.
Look, today I am giving you the choice between a blessing and a curse.
You will be blessed if you obey the commands of the Lord your
God that I am giving you today.
But you will be cursed if you reject the commands of the Lord your God,
and turn away from him into worship Gods you have not known before.
When the Lord your God brings you into the land and helps you take possession of it,
you must pronounce the blessing at Mount Garrison and the curse at Mount Evil.
These two mountains are west of the Jordan River and the land of the Canaanites who
live in the Jordan Valley near the town of Gilgal, not far from the oaks of Mora.
For you are about to cross the Jordan River, to take over the land,
the Lord your God has given you.
When you take that land and are living in it, you must be careful
to obey all the decrees and regulations I am giving you today.
This concludes today's immerse reading experience.
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