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Deuteronomy 10:4

in Deuteronomy 10

And the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Jehovah spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Jehovah gave them unto me.

KJV

And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me.

This verse in Deuteronomy 10

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

And the LORD wrote on the tablets

on Deuteronomy 10:4-5

Moses says "there they have remained", speaking in Moab forty years on. At 1 Kings 8:9 the ark in Solomon's temple holds only the two tablets.

The record, by era

The Reformation1 voice

A commentator

John Calvin

1509–1564

Commentaries (1554)

proposed

The orthodox Fathers aptly used this passage against the Arians; because, since Christ is everywhere called God, He is undoubtedly the same Jehovah who declares Himself to be the One God; and this is asserted with the same force respecting the Holy Spirit.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And he wrote on the tables according to the first writing,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The written word is as truly the word of God as that which he spoke to his servants the prophets. What care was taken of it. These two tables, thus engraven, were faithfully laid up in the ark.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Ten commandments - See the note on Exo 20:1, etc.

The words behind it

20 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.

  • וַיִּכְתֹּ֨בand he wrote

    vaiyikhtoH3789 →224 times

  • עַֽל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַלֻּחֹ֜תthe tablets

    haluchotH3871 →43 times

  • כַּמִּכְתָּ֣בlike the writing

    kamikhtavH4385 →

  • הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן<the> former

    harishonH7223 →182 times

  • אֵ֚ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • עֲשֶׂ֣רֶת[the] ten

    ʾaseretH6235 →176 times

  • הַדְּבָרִ֔יםthe words

    hadevarimH1697 →1440 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • דִּבֶּר֩he had spoken

    diberH1696 →1141 times

  • יְהוָ֨הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֲלֵיכֶ֥םto you

    ʾaleikhemH413 →5510 times

  • בָּהָ֛רon the mountain

    baharH2022 →546 times

  • מִתּ֥וֹךְfrom [the] middle of

    mitokhH8432 →418 times

  • הָאֵ֖שׁthe fire

    haeshH784 →378 times

  • בְּי֣וֹםon [the] day of

    beyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַקָּהָ֑לthe assembly

    hakahalH6951 →123 times

  • וַיִּתְּנֵ֥םand he gave them

    vaiyitenemH5414 →2011 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֵלָֽי׃to me

    ʾelaiH413 →5510 times

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

The walk

8 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

    Deuteronomy 18:16

    This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 20:19

      “Speak to us yourself and we will listen,” they said to Moses. “But do not let God speak to us, or we will die.”

    • Deuteronomy 9:10

      Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the…

    • Deuteronomy 5:23–28

      And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 34:1

      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.

    • Deuteronomy 4:13

      He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.

    • Exodus 24:18

      Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

    • Deuteronomy 9:25

      So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

    • Deuteronomy 9:18

      Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you…

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Calvin, Commentaries; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.