Deuteronomy 10:1-4

Tablets Like the First Ones

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.^[a]

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.

Deuteronomy 10:1-4 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.

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 25:10; Exodus 34:1-2
• 2. Exodus 25:16,21; Deuteronomy 4:13; 2 Chronicles 5:10; 2 Chronicles 6:11
• 3. Exodus 25:5,10; Exodus 37:1-9
• 4. Exodus 34:4
• 5. S Exodus 24:12; S Exodus 34:28
• 6. Exodus 20:1
• 7. S Deuteronomy 9:10

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, a chest