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10.5 and there they are, as the commanded me.—And the children of Israel journeyed from Beeroth-bene-jaakan to Moserah; there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest' s office in his stead. From thence they journeyed unto Gudgod; and from Gudgod to Jotbah, a land of brooks of water.— At that time the separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the, to stand before the  to minister unto Him, and to bless in His name, unto this day. Wherefore Levi hath no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the is his inheritance, according as the  thy God spoke unto him.—Now I stayed in the mount, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the  hearkened unto me that time also; the  would not destroy thee. And the said unto me: 'Arise, go before the people, causing them to set forward, that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give unto them.'

And now, Israel, what doth the thy God require of thee, but to fear the  thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the  thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul; to keep for thy good the commandments of the, and His statutes, which I command thee this day? Behold, unto the thy God belongeth the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that therein is. Only the had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you, above all peoples, as it is this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. For the your God, He is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awful, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward. He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Love ye therefore the stranger; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Thou shalt fear the thy God; Him shalt thou serve; and to Him shalt thou cleave, and by His name shalt thou swear. He is thy glory, and He is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and tremendous things, which thine eyes have seen. Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Therefore thou shalt love the thy God, and keep His charge, and His statutes, and His ordinances, and His commandments, alway. And know ye this day; for I speak not with your children that have not known, and that have not seen the chastisement of the your God, His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm, and His signs, and His works, which He did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; and what He did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how He made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the  hath destroyed them unto this day; and what He did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came unto this place; and what He did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living