8. At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry 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.
9. Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers. The Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God said to him.)
10. “I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the Lord listened to me that time also. The Lord was unwilling to destroy you.
11. And the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go on your journey at the head of the people, so that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give 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, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
13. and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today for your good?
14. Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it.
15. Yet the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.
16. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.
17. For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.