Deuteronomy · Chapter 10

[ edit] In þat tyme þe Lord ſeide to me, Plaan to þee two ſtonen tables, as þe raþer weren; and ſty vp to me into þe hil. And þow ſhalt make a treen ark, and I ſhal write in þe tablis wordes þat weren in hem þe whiche before þou breeke; and þow ſhalt putt hem into þe ark. I made þerfor þe ark of trees of Sechym; and whanne I hadde planed two ſtonen tablis, at þe lyknes of þe raþer, I ſtide vp into þe hil, hauynge hem in hoondes. And he wroot in þe tables, after þat þat he hadde wryten before ten wordes, þat þe Lord ſpak to vs in þe hil, fro þe myddil of fier, whanne þe puple was gedryd, and haþ ȝeue hem to me.

And turned aȝen fro þe hil, Y deſſendid, and putte þe tables into þe ark þat I made, þe whiche ȝit hidir to þere ben, as þe Lord haþ comaundid to me. Forſoþe þe ſones of Yrael meeueden tentis fro Beroþ, of þe ſones of Jachan, in Moſera, where Aaron is deed, and biryed, for whom his ſone Eleazar bere þe office of preeſt. Þens þei camen in Galaad; fro þe which place goon forþ, þei ſettiden tentis in Geþabaþa, in þe loond of watris and of ſtremes. Þat tyme I ſeuerde þe lynage of Leuy, þat he bere þe ark of þe boond of pees of þe Lord, and ſtoond before hym in ſeruyce, and bleſſe in þe name of hym, into þe preſent day.

Wherfor Leuy hadde no part ne poſſeſſioun wiþ his briþeren, for he þe Lord is þe poſſeſſioun of hym, as þe Lord þi God haþ bihoot to hym. I forſoþe ſtood in þe hil, as bifore, fourti dais and fourti nyȝt, and þe Lord herde me in þis while, and wold not leſe þee. And he ſeide to me, Go, and weend before þe puple, þat he goo yn, and weelde þe loond þat I haue ſworn to þe fadres of hem, þat I ſhulde take to hem.

And nowe, Yrael, what þing þe Lord þi God aſkiþ of þee, but þat þow drede þe Lord þi God, and goo in þe weies of hym, and loue hym, and ſerue to þe Lord þi God in al þin herte, and in al þi ſoule; and kepe þe heeſtis of þe Lord þi God, and þe cerymouns of hym, þat I to day comaunde to þee, þat wel it be to þee. Loo! of þe Lord þi God is heuene, and heuene of heuene, erþe, and alle þingis þat in it ben; and neuerþelater to þi faders ioyned is þe Lord, and he louede hem, and haþ choſen þe ſeed of hem, after hem, þat is, ȝow, fro alle gentils, as to day is preued. Kutte ȝe about þerfore þe vttermore part of ȝoure herte, and ȝoure nolle forþermore harde ȝe not.

For þe Lord oure God he is God of goddis, and Lord of lordyngis; a greet God, and myȝti, and dreedful, þat perſoone takeþ not, ne ȝiftis. He doþ doom to þe faderles child, and to widewe, and loueþ þe pilgrime, and ȝyueþ to hym lyuelod, and cloþinge. And ȝe þerfore loueþ pilgrimys, for and ȝe ȝoure ſelf weren pilgrimys in þe loond of Egipt. Þe Lord þi God þow ſhalt drede, and to hym þow ſhalt ſerue, and to hym þow ſhalt drawe to, and ſwere in þe name of hym. He is þi preyſynge, and þi God, þat haþ do to þee þes greet þingis, and feerful, þat þin eyen han ſeen. In ſeuenti ſoules þi fadres deſſendeden into Egipte, and loo! now þe Lord þi God haþ multiplied þee as ſterres of heuene.