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Discover the Arts! Each day a different image from the Literary, Performing, or Visual Arts representing a portion of Scripture plus an explanation with links and a discussion forum 2014 March 23
The Offering of the Heart (c. 1410)
Unknown Flemish Weaver (fl. 15th Century)
Early Netherlandish Style; International Gothic Genre
Musee du Louvre, Paris, France
Image Source: Web Gallery of Art
Explanation: Deuteronomy 10 contains a strong emphasis on loving the LORD, (hence the illustration above). Moses mentions the two tables of stone which he made to replace the ones he broke. On these the LORD again wrote the commandments; and he had Moses deposit the tablets in an a box which he made called an ark (1-5). Later Israel journeyed to Mosera; and when Aaron died, his son Eleazar took his place as High Priest. Israel then continued their journeys; and the LORD separated the tribe of Levi to carry the ark on their journeys, and to minister, and to bless the name of the LORD. For this reason Levi has no inheritance in the Land. Instead, the LORD is his inheritance (6-9). And Moses interceded for the people for forty days and forty nights that the LORD would not destroy Israel; so the LORD gave them renewed permission to go into the Promised Land (10-11). On the basis of these facts Moses tells Israel that the LORD requires them to fear the LORD, walk in all his ways, love him, and serve him with all their heart and soul. He reminds them that the LORD, who owns the heavens and the earth and all within them, took delight in Israel's ancestors and chose them and their seed above all other people. Moses therefore tells them to circumcise their hearts and to no longer be stiffnecked. And he sets before them the example of the LORD himself who is impartial in judgment, who takes care of the fatherless, widows, and strangers; and he tells them to therefore take care of strangers since they were strangers in Egypt; and he commands them that they must serve God and remember the great things he has done, especially in multiplying them from 70 persons to an uncountable multitude (12-22).
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.
9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.
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.
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 stiffnecked.
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.
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