Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Deuteronomy 10:6-16 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

6. And the children of Israel removed their camp from Beroth of the children of Jacan into Mosera, where Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him in the priestly office.

7. From thence they came to Gadgad, from which place they departed, and camped in Jetebatha, in a land of waters and torrents.

8. At that time he separated the tribe of Levi, to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to stand before him in the ministry, and to bless in his name until this present day.

9. Wherefore Levi hath no part nor possession with his brethren: because the Lord himself is his possession, as the Lord thy God promised him.

10. And I stood in the mount, as before, forty days and nights: and the Lord heard me this time also, and would not destroy thee.

11. And he said to me: Go, and walk before the people, that they may enter, and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers that I would give them.

12. And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and love him, and serve the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:

13. And keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies, which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee?

14. Behold heaven is the Lord's thy God, and the heaven of heaven, the earth and all things that are therein.

15. And yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers, and loved them and chose their seed after them, that is to say, you, out of all nations, as this day it is proved.

16. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.