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A reminder of the second tablets of the covenant and the election of the tribe of Levi to serve God at the tabernacle. Understanding to the people the spirit of the requirements of the God-given law. Deut.10:1. At that time the Lord said to me: hew out for yourself two tablets of stone, like the first, and go up to Me on the mountain, and make for yourself a wooden ark; Deut.10:2. and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you broke; and put them in the ark. Deut.10:3. And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed out two tablets of stone like the first, and went up to the mountain; and these two tablets were in my hands. Deut.10:4. And He wrote on the tablets, as it was written before, the ten words which the Lord spoke to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the meeting, and the Lord gave them to me. Deut.10:5. And I turned, and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark, which I had made for them to be there, as the Lord commanded me. Ref. 25:10–22, 34:1, 37:1–9. Deut.10:6. And the children of Israel departed from Beeroth-bene-jaakan to Moser; Aaron died there and was buried there, and his son Eleazar became priest in his stead. Deut.10:7. From there they went to Gudgod, from Gudgod to Jotvatha, the land where there are streams of water. See example to Numbers. 11.34–35 and to Num. 33.1–49. Deut.10:8. At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord, to serve Him [and pray] and to bless in His name, as it continues to this day; Deut.10:9. Therefore the Levite has no portion or inheritance with his brothers: the Lord himself is his inheritance, as the Lord your God spoke to him. adjacent directly to Deuteronomy 10:1–5. The expression “at that time” cannot mean the moment the Jews stood in the areas indicated in Deut. 10:6–7: the selection of the tribe of Levi to serve at the tabernacle followed before the departure from Sinai and the death of Aaron. Deut.10:10. And I stayed on the mountain, as in former times, forty days and forty nights; and the Lord listened to me this time too, [and] the Lord did not want to destroy you; Deut.10:11. and the Lord said to me: Arise, go on your way before [this] people; let them go and take possession of the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. Ref. 32:31–34, 33:1–3, 34:8–11. Deut.10:16. Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart and do not be stiff-necked from now on; The expression “circumcision of the foreskin of the heart” means the virtue of a person’s internal voluntary self-restraint in his unworthy thoughts (Matthew 15.19), feelings and actions (Lev.26.41; Jer 4.4; Ezek 44.9; Acts 7.51). Deut.10:20. Fear the Lord your God [and] serve Him [alone], and cleave to Him and swear by His name: Deut.10:22. Your fathers came into Egypt with seventy [five] souls, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven. Ref. 1:1–5, 12:37, 38:26; Number 1:46, 3:39. You might be interested in: