Deuteronomy 10:3-13

3 "So ¹I made an ark of acacia wood and ²cut out two tablets of stone like the former ones, and went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

4 "He wrote on the tablets, like the former writing, ³the Ten Commandments ⁴which the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire ⁵on the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me.

5 "Then I turned and ⁶came down from the mountain and ⁷put the tablets in the ark which I had made; ⁸and there they are, as the LORD commanded me."

6 (Now the sons of Israel set out from Beeroth ⁹Bene-jaakan to Moserah. ¹⁰There Aaron died and there he was buried and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his place.

7 ¹¹From there they set out to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.

8 ¹²At 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 ¹³to serve Him and to bless in His name until this day.

9 ¹⁴Therefore *, Levi does not have a portion or inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, just as the LORD your God spoke to him.)

10 "¹⁵I, moreover, stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights like the first time, and the LORD listened to me that time also; the LORD was not willing to destroy you.

11 "Then the LORD said to me, 'Arise, proceed on your journey ahead of the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.'

12 "¹⁶Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require from you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and ¹⁷love Him, and to serve the LORD your God with ¹⁸all your heart and with all your soul,

13 and to keep the LORD'S commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good?

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Deuteronomy 10:3-13 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 18

1. Exodus 25:5; Exodus 37:1-9
2. Exodus 34:4
3. Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13
4. Exodus 20:1
5. Deuteronomy 9:10; Deuteronomy 18:16
6. Exodus 34:29
7. Exodus 40:20
8. 1 Kings 8:9
9. Numbers 33:30, 31
10. Numbers 20:25-28; Numbers 33:38
11. Numbers 33:33, 34
12. Numbers 3:6; Numbers 18:1-7; Deuteronomy 31:9
13. Deuteronomy 17:12; Deuteronomy 18:5; Deuteronomy 21:5
14. Numbers 18:20, 24; Deuteronomy 18:1, 2; Ezekiel 44:28
15. Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 9:18
16. Micah 6:8
17. Deuteronomy 6:5; Matthew 22:37; 1 Timothy 1:5
18. Deuteronomy 4:29

Footnotes 3

[a]. Lit "Words"
[b]. Or "the wells of the sons of Jaakan"
[c]. Or "reverence"