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Deuteronomy 10, The Lord
Separated the Tribe of Levi
Deuteronomy 10:1 At 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.
2 And 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 And 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.
4 And 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.
5 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.
6 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.
7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land
of rivers of waters.
8 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 unto him, and to
bless in his name, unto this day.
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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.
9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his
inheritance, according as the Lord thy God promised him.
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Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his
brethren; the Lord is his inheritance
10 And 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.
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Moses was on the mount again forty days and
forty nights, praying to the Lord and the Lord
hearkened unto me at that time also, and
the Lord would not destroy thee.
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Notice again 40 days and 40 nights
11 And 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 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,
13 To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee
this day for thy good?
14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord's thy God, the earth
also, with all that therein is.
15 Only 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.
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff necked.
17 For 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:
18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the
stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
20 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou
cleave, and swear by his name.
21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and
terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
22 Thy 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.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
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