New Stone Tablets (Exodus 34:1–9)
1 AKJV At that time the LORD said to me, Hew you two tables of stone like to the first, and come up to me into the mount, and make you an ark of wood. BSB BSB: At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
2 AKJV And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which you brake, and you shall put them in the ark. BSB BSB: And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to place them in the ark.”
3 AKJV And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like to the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in my hand. BSB BSB: So I made an ark of acacia wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.
4 AKJV And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spoke to you in the mount out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them to me. BSB BSB: And the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me,
5 AKJV 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. BSB BSB: and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD had commanded me; and there they have remained.
6 AKJV And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his stead. BSB BSB: The Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest.
7 AKJV From there they journeyed to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. BSB BSB: From there they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.
8 AKJV At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day. BSB BSB: At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to serve Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name, as they do to this day.
9 AKJV Why Levi has no part nor inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD your God promised him. BSB BSB: That is why Levi has no portion or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God promised him.
10 AKJV And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD listened to me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy you. BSB BSB: I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.
11 AKJV And the LORD said to me, Arise, take your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them. BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to me, “Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”
A Call to Obedience (Joshua 24:14–28)
12 AKJV And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, BSB BSB: And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
13 AKJV To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good? BSB BSB: and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good?
14 AKJV Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD’s your God, the earth also, with all that therein is. BSB BSB: Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.
15 AKJV Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. BSB BSB: Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
17 AKJV For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regards not persons, nor takes reward: BSB BSB: For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
19 AKJV Love you therefore the stranger: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. BSB BSB: So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
20 AKJV You shall fear the LORD your God; him shall you serve, and to him shall you hold, and swear by his name. BSB BSB: You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.
21 AKJV He is your praise, and he is your God, that has done for you these great and terrible things, which your eyes have seen. BSB BSB: He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.
22 AKJV Your fathers went down into Egypt with three score and ten persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude. BSB BSB: Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.