Deuteronomy 10:2

2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the ark.”

Deuteronomy 10:2 in Other Translations

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.

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

2 and I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the ones you smashed. Then place the tablets in the Ark.’

2 I will engrave the stone slabs with the words that were on the first ones, the ones you smashed. Then you will put them in the Chest."

2 And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.

2 I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed. Then you will put them in the ark."

2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you are to place them in the ark.'

2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you must put the tablets in the chest."

Deuteronomy 10:2 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 10:2

And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first
tables, which thou brakest
^F1 Though they were hewn by Moses, the writing on them was the Lord's; and the very same laws, in the same words, without any alteration or variation, were written by him on these as on the former; partly to show the authenticity of them, that they were of God and not Moses, of a divine original and not human; and partly to show the invariableness of them, that no change had been made in them, though they had been broken by the people; of which Moses's breaking the tables was a representation;

and thou shall put them in the ark;
which being a type of Christ may signify the fulfilment of the law by him, who is the end, the fulfilling end of the law for righteousness to every believer; and that as this was in his heart to fulfil it, so it is in his hand as a rule of faith and conversation to his people.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 See a Sermon of mine on this text, called, "The Law in the Hand of Christ."

Deuteronomy 10:2 In-Context

1 At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark.

2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the ark.”

3 So I made the ark out of acacia wood and chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

4 The LORD wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments he had proclaimed to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.

5 Then I came back down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD commanded me, and they are there now.

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 25:16,21; Deuteronomy 4:13; 2 Chronicles 5:10; 2 Chronicles 6:11