The Tanakh · JPS 1917 Translation

Deuteronomy 10

Jewish Publication Society 1917 · Torah

Deuteronomy chapter 10 — part of the Torah in the Jewish Bible. In the classic JPS 1917 translation it opens: “At that time HaShem said unto me: 'Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto Me into the mount; and…” — the complete text of all 22 verses is below, free to read online.

1At that time HaShem said unto me: 'Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto Me into the mount; and make thee an ark of wood.

2And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou didst break, and thou shalt put them in the ark.'

3So I made an ark of acacia-wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in my hand.

4And He wrote on the tables according to the first writing, the ten words, which HaShem spoke unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and HaShem gave them unto me.

5And I turned and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as HaShem commanded me.--

6And the children of Israel journeyed from Beeroth-benejaakan to Moserah; there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.

7From thence they journeyed unto Gudgod; and from Gudgod to Jotbah, a land of brooks of water.--

8At that time HaShem separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of HaShem, to stand before HaShem to minister unto Him, and to bless in His name, unto this day.

9Wherefore Levi hath no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; HaShem is his inheritance, according as HaShem thy G-d spoke unto him.--

10Now I stayed in the mount, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights; and HaShem hearkened unto me that time also; HaShem would not destroy thee.

11And HaShem 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.'

12And now, Israel, what doth HaShem thy G-d require of thee, but to fear HaShem thy G-d, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve HaShem thy G-d with all thy heart and with all thy soul;

13to keep for thy good the commandments of HaShem, and His statutes, which I command thee this day?

14Behold, unto HaShem thy G-d belongeth the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that therein is.

15Only HaShem 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.

16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

17For HaShem your G-d, He is G-d of gods, and L-rd of lords, the great G-d, the mighty, and the awful, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.

18He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

19Love ye therefore the stranger; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

20Thou shalt fear HaShem thy G-d; Him shalt thou serve; and to Him shalt thou cleave, and by His name shalt thou swear.

21He is thy glory, and He is thy G-d, that hath done for thee these great and tremendous things, which thine eyes have seen.

22Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now HaShem thy G-d hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

22 verses · JPS 1917 (public domain)

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