Deuteronomy 10:3
in Deuteronomy 10So 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.
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ASV
So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in my hand.
KJV
And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 10
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
JOSEPHUS says that each of the tables contained five precepts. But the tradition generally received, both among Jewish and Christian writers is, that one table contained four precepts, the other six.
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
And I made an ark of shittim wood,....
And this left an earnest to the congregation that the tables should not miscarry this second time, as they had done the first. God will send his law and gospel to those whose hearts are prepared as arks to receive them. Christ is the ark in which now our salvation is kept safely, that it may not be lost as it was in the first Adam, when he had it in his own hand.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Shittim wood - See the note on Exo 25:5, and succeeding verses, and on the parallel places in the margin.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וָאַ֤עַשׂ | vaaas | and I made | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| אֲרוֹן֙ | ʾaron | an ark of | H727 → | 202 times |
| עֲצֵ֣י | ʾatzei | wood<s> of | H6086 → | 328 times |
| שִׁטִּ֔ים | shitim | acacia | H7848 → | |
| וָאֶפְסֹ֛ל | vaefsol | and I cut out | H6458 → | |
| שְׁנֵי־ | shenei- | two | H8147 → | 768 times |
| לֻחֹ֥ת | luchot | tablets of | H3871 → | 43 times |
| אֲבָנִ֖ים | ʾavanim | stone<s> | H68 → | 273 times |
| כָּרִאשֹׁנִ֑ים | karishonim | like the former [tablets] | H7223 → | 182 times |
| וָאַ֣עַל | vaaal | and I went up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| הָהָ֔רָה | haharah | the mountain towards | H2022 → | 546 times |
| וּשְׁנֵ֥י | ushenei | and [the] two | H8147 → | 768 times |
| הַלֻּחֹ֖ת | haluchot | the tablets | H3871 → | 43 times |
| בְּיָדִֽי׃ | beyadi | [were] in hand my | H3027 → | 1618 times |
וָאַ֤עַשׂand I made
vaaasH6213 →2628 times
אֲרוֹן֙an ark of
ʾaronH727 →202 times
עֲצֵ֣יwood<s> of
ʾatzeiH6086 →328 times
שִׁטִּ֔יםacacia
shitimH7848 →
וָאֶפְסֹ֛לand I cut out
vaefsolH6458 →
שְׁנֵי־two
shenei-H8147 →768 times
לֻחֹ֥תtablets of
luchotH3871 →43 times
אֲבָנִ֖יםstone<s>
ʾavanimH68 →273 times
כָּרִאשֹׁנִ֑יםlike the former [tablets]
karishonimH7223 →182 times
וָאַ֣עַלand I went up
vaaalH5927 →890 times
הָהָ֔רָהthe mountain towards
haharahH2022 →546 times
וּשְׁנֵ֥יand [the] two
usheneiH8147 →768 times
הַלֻּחֹ֖תthe tablets
haluchotH3871 →43 times
בְּיָדִֽי׃[were] in hand my
beyadiH3027 →1618 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
Exodus 25:10And 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.
it leads to
- 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.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 37:1–3
Bezalel went on to construct the ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
- Deuteronomy 10:1–3
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.
- Revelation 11:19
Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and an earthquake,…
- Hebrews 9:4
Through
Deuteronomy 10:1At 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.
it leads to
- Exodus 34:1–2
Then 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.
- Exodus 25:10–15
And 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.
- Deuteronomy 10:3–4
So 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.
- Exodus 34:4
So 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…
- Exodus 34:1–2
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About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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.