Deuteronomy 10:3
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What does Deuteronomy 10:3 mean?
And I made an ark of shittim wood
That is, ordered it to be made, and it was made by Bezaleel, and
that of shittim wood: so the ark that was put into the holy of
holies was made of this wood; see (See Gill on Exodus
25:10), (See Gill on Exodus
37:1),
and hewed two tables of stone like unto the
first;
two marble ones, as the Targum of Jonathan; that is, he ordered
them to be hewed, and took care that they should be exactly made
as the former were, of which he had perfect knowledge, having
received them of the Lord, and brought them with him down the
mount:
and went up into the mount, having the two tables in my
hand;
in order to have the words of the law, the ten commands, written
on them, these being only hewn stones, without anything on them:
they were very probably marble, of which great quantities were
near at hand.
