| New King James Version | King James Bible |
| 1“At that time the LORD 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. | 1At that time the LORD 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 tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you shall put them in the ark.’ | 2And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. |
| 3“So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. | 3And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. |
| 4And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the LORD had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me. | 4And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me. |
| 5Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are, just as the LORD commanded me.” | 5And 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. |
| 6(Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron died, and where he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his stead. | 6And 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. |
| 7From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of rivers of water. | 7From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. |
| 8At 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. | 8At 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 unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day. |
| 9Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, just as the LORD your God promised him.) | 9Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him. |
| 10“As at the first time, I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; the LORD also heard me at that time, and the LORD chose not to destroy you. | 10And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee. |
| 11Then the LORD said to me, ‘Arise, begin your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’ | 11And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them. |
| 12“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, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, | 12And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, |
| 13and to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I command you today for your good? | 13To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? |
| 14Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the LORD your God, also the earth with all that is in it. | 14Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. |
| 15The LORD delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day. | 15Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. |
| 16Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer. | 16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. |
| 17For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. | 17For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: |
| 18He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. | 18He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. |
| 19Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. | 19Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. |
| 20You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name. | 20Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. |
| 21He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen. | 21He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen. |
| 22Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude. | 22Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude. |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. |
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