Deuteronomy 10:1-11

New Tablets of Stone

1 "At that time the LORD said to me, ¹'Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain and ²make an ark of wood.

2 And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and ³you shall put them in the ark.'

3 So I made an ark ⁴of acacia wood, and ⁵cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

4 And ⁶he wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments^[a]⁷that the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire ⁸on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.

5 Then I turned and ⁹came down from the mountain and ¹⁰put the tablets in the ark that I had made. ¹¹And there they are, as the LORD commanded me."

6 (The people of Israel ¹²journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan^[b] to Moserah. ¹³There Aaron died, and there he was buried. And his son Eleazar ministered as priest in his place.

7 ¹⁴From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with brooks of water.

8 At that time ¹⁵the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi ¹⁶to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD ¹⁷to stand before the LORD to minister to him and ¹⁸to bless in his name, to this day.

9 ¹⁹Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers. The LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God said to him.)

10 ²⁰"I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, ²¹and the LORD listened to me that time also. The LORD was unwilling to destroy you.

11 ²²And 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.'

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Deuteronomy 10:1-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 10

In this chapter an account is given of an order to Moses to hew two tables of stone, on which the Lord would write the words that were on the first, and to make an ark and put them into it, all which was accordingly done, De 10:1-5 and of some of the journeys of the children of Israel, De 10:6,7 and of the separation of the tribe of Levi to the service of the sanctuary, De 10:8,9 and of Moses's stay in the mount forty days and nights, and his success there, and the direction he had to lead on the people of Israel towards Canaan's land, De 10:10,11 and who by various arguments are exhorted to fear the Lord, and serve him, and keep his commands, De 10:12-22.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 22

1. Exodus 34:1, 2
2. Exodus 25:10
3. Exodus 25:16, 21
4. Exodus 25:10; Exodus 37:1
5. Exodus 34:4
6. Exodus 34:28
7. Exodus 20:1
8. See Deuteronomy 9:10
9. Exodus 34:29
10. Exodus 40:20
11. 1 Kings 8:9
12. Numbers 33:30, 31
13. [Numbers 20:28; Numbers 33:38]
14. Numbers 33:32, 33
15. Numbers 3:6; Numbers 8:14; Numbers 16:9; [1 Chronicles 23:13]
16. Numbers 4:5, 15
17. Deuteronomy 17:12; Deuteronomy 18:5, 7
18. Deuteronomy 21:5; Leviticus 9:22; See Numbers 6:23-26
19. See Numbers 18:20
20. Deuteronomy 9:18, 25
21. Deuteronomy 9:19
22. Exodus 32:34; Exodus 33:1

Footnotes 2

[a]. Hebrew words
[b]. Or the wells of the Bene-jaakan

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