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Deuteronomy 10:1

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At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

At that time Jehovah said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.

KJV

At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.

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This verse in Deuteronomy 10

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
These verses are closely connected with the preceding chapter, and state very briefly the results of the intercession of Moses recorded in Deu 9:25-29. The people are reminded that all their blessings and privileges, forfeited by apostasy as soon as bestowed, were only now their own by a new and most unmerited act of grace on the part of God, won from Him by the self-sacrificing mediation of Moses himself Deu 10:10. Deu 10:1-5. The order for making the ark and tabernacle was evidently given before the apostasy of the people (Exo.

This site's exposition

Hew thee two tables of stone

on Deuteronomy 10:1-3

God writes and Moses quarries. The first tables at Exodus 32:16 were the work of God and the writing of God, and here the man supplies the stone while the writing stays God's, which is the one part of the pair the breaking did not change. Moses also makes an ark of shittim wood before Bezaleel builds the ark of Exodus 37:1, and readers have long divided over whether this is a plain chest made to hold the tables until the tabernacle stood or the same ark told out of its order.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

At that time the Lord said unto me,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, God's putting his law in our reconciliation to God and the best earnest of our happiness in him. Moses is told to hew the tables; for the law prepares the heart by conviction and humiliation for the grace of God, but it is only that grace that then writes the law in it.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first--It was when God had been pacified through the intercessions of Moses with the people who had so greatly offended Him by the worship of the golden calf.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Hew thee two tables of stone - See the notes on Exo 34:1.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

‘HEW THEE TWO TABLETS OF STONE.’ After I cast myself down in prayer before G-d for forty days and forty nights, He was reconciled with me that He would write the second Tablets.
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Deuteronomy 10:1:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • בָּעֵ֨תat the time

    baetH6256 →296 times

  • הַהִ֜וא<the> that

    hahiv'H1931 →1879 times

  • אָמַ֧רhe said

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • יְהוָ֣הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֵלַ֗יto me

    ʾelaiH413 →5510 times

  • פְּסָל־cut out

    pesol-H6458 →

  • לְךָ֞for <the> yourself

    lekha

  • שְׁנֵֽי־two

    shenei-H8147 →768 times

  • לֻוחֹ֤תtablets of

    luchotH3871 →43 times

  • אֲבָנִים֙stone<s>

    ʾavanimH68 →273 times

  • כָּרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔יםlike the former [tablets]

    karishonimH7223 →182 times

  • וַעֲלֵ֥הand come up

    vaalehH5927 →890 times

  • אֵלַ֖יto me

    ʾelaiH413 →5510 times

  • הָהָ֑רָהthe mountain towards

    haharahH2022 →546 times

  • וְעָשִׂ֥יתָand you will make

    veasitaH6213 →2628 times

  • לְּךָ֖for <the> yourself

    lekha

  • אֲר֥וֹןan ark of

    ʾaronH727 →202 times

  • עֵֽץ׃wood

    ʾetzH6086 →328 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Exodus 34:1–2Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.6 worksExodus 25:10–15And they are to construct an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.3 worksExodus 32:16The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.3 worksExodus 34:4So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him.2 worksDeuteronomy 10:3–4So I made an ark of acacia wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.2 worksHebrews 9:4containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Hebrews 9:4

    containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 17:10

      The LORD said to Moses, “Put Aaron’s staff back in front of the Testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebellious, so that you may put an end to their grumbling against…

    • Leviticus 16:12

      Then he must take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil.

    • Exodus 26:33

      And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

    • Exodus 40:3

      Put the ark of the Testimony in it and screen off the ark with the veil.

    • 2 Chronicles 5:10

      There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of…

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 10 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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