New Stone Tablets
(Exodus 34:1–9)

1At that time, YHWH said to me, “Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain, and make yourself an ark of wood. 2And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.”

3And I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, and the two tablets were in my hand. 4And He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the Ten Words† that YHWH had spoken to you⁺ in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. And YHWH gave them to me. 5And I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark that I had made. And they are there, as YHWH commanded me.

6And the sons of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan† to Moserah, where Aaron died, and he was buried there. And Eleazar his son acted as priest in his stead. 7From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of rivers of water.

8At that time YHWH separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of YHWH, to stand before the face of YHWH to minister to Him, and to bless in His name, to this day. 9Upon thus Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers; YHWH is his inheritance, as YHWH your God spoke to him.

10And I stayed in the mountain, as at the first days, forty days and forty nights. And YHWH heard me also at that time; and YHWH chose not to destroy you.

11And YHWH said to me, “Arise, begin in journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give to them.”

A Call to Obedience
(Joshua 24:14–28)

12And now, O Israel, what does YHWH your God require of you except but to fear YHWH your God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve YHWH your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13and to keep the commandments of YHWH, and His statutes that I command you today for good to you?

14Behold, unto YHWH your God are the heavens and the heavens of the heavens, the earth and all that is in it. 15Yet in your fathers YHWH delighted to love them, and He chose their seed after them, you⁺, above all peoples, as it is this day.

16And you⁺ shall circumcise the foreskin of your⁺ heart, and be not stiff-necked anymore. 17For YHWH your⁺ God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, God, the great, mighty, and awesome, who regards not persons nor takes a bribe. 18He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and He loves the sojourner, giving to him food and clothing. 19And you⁺ shall love the sojourner, for you⁺ were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

20YHWH your God you shall fear; Him you shall serve, and to Him you shall hold fast, and by His name you shall swear. 21He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen. 22With seventy persons Your fathers went down to Egypt, and now YHWH your God has made you like the stars of the heavens in multitude.