Deuteronomy 10:2
in Deuteronomy 10And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to place them in the ark.”
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ASV
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.
KJV
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.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 10
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals
on Deuteronomy 10:1-3
God writes and Moses quarries. The first tablets were the work and writing of God at Exodus 32:16, and now Moses supplies the stone while the writing stays God's.
This site's exposition
the words that were on the first tablets
God promises the same words, the words that were on the first tablets. John Gill reads the exact repetition as showing that the law was God's and that the people's breach had changed nothing in it.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest,.... (a) 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. (a) See a Sermon of mine on this text, called, "The Law in the Hand of Christ."
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.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
‘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.
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
14 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֶכְתֹּב֙ | veekhto | so I may inscribe | H3789 → | 224 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| הַלֻּחֹ֔ת | haluchot | the tablets | H3871 → | 43 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַדְּבָרִ֔ים | hadevarim | the words | H1697 → | 1440 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֥ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| הָי֛וּ | hayu | they were | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| הַלֻּחֹ֥ת | haluchot | the tablets | H3871 → | 43 times |
| הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים | harishonim | <the> former | H7223 → | 182 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| שִׁבַּ֑רְתָּ | shibarta | you shattered | H7665 → | 147 times |
| וְשַׂמְתָּ֖ם | vesamtam | and you will put them | H7760 → | 584 times |
| בָּאָרֽוֹן׃ | baaron | in the ark | H727 → | 202 times |
וְאֶכְתֹּב֙so I may inscribe
veekhtoH3789 →224 times
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
הַלֻּחֹ֔תthe tablets
haluchotH3871 →43 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַדְּבָרִ֔יםthe words
hadevarimH1697 →1440 times
אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
הָי֛וּthey were
hayuH1961 →3559 times
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
הַלֻּחֹ֥תthe tablets
haluchotH3871 →43 times
הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים<the> former
harishonimH7223 →182 times
אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
שִׁבַּ֑רְתָּyou shattered
shibartaH7665 →147 times
וְשַׂמְתָּ֖םand you will put them
vesamtamH7760 →584 times
בָּאָרֽוֹן׃in the ark
baaronH727 →202 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Deuteronomy 4:13He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.
it leads to
- Exodus 31:18
When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 34:28
So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
- Deuteronomy 9:9–11
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.…
- Exodus 24:12
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written…
- Exodus 31:18
Through
Hebrews 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.
it leads to
- Exodus 40:3
Put the ark of the Testimony in it and screen off the ark with the veil.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 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…
- Exodus 40:3
Through
1 Kings 8:9There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out…
it leads to
- Exodus 25:21
Set the mercy seat atop the ark, and put the Testimony that I will give you into the ark.
- 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.
- Exodus 25:21
Where this verse is studied
About Deuteronomy
This page draws on John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.