Deuteronomy 10:3 BSB

Deuteronomy 10:3

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.

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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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Commentary

1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וָאַ֤עַשׂ	va.'A.'as	and I made	H6213 →
אֲרוֹן֙	'a.rOn	an ark of	H727 →
עֲצֵ֣י	'a.Tzei	wood<s> of	H6086 →
שִׁטִּ֔ים	shi.Tim	acacia	H7848 →
וָאֶפְסֹ֛ל	va.'ef.Sol	and I cut out	H6458 →
שְׁנֵי־	she.nei-	two	H8147 →
לֻחֹ֥ת	lu.Chot	tablets of	H3871 →
אֲבָנִ֖ים	'a.va.Nim	stone<s>	H68 →
כָּרִאשֹׁנִ֑ים	ka.ri.sho.Nim	like the former [tablets]	H7223 →
וָאַ֣עַל	va.'A.'al	and I went up	H5927 →
הָהָ֔רָה	ha.Ha.rah	the mountain towards	H2022 →
וּשְׁנֵ֥י	u.she.Nei	and [the] two	H8147 →
הַלֻּחֹ֖ת	ha.lu.Chot	the tablets	H3871 →
בְּיָדִֽי׃	be.ya.Di	[were] in hand my	H3027 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 25:10
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.
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 independent 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,…
Through
Deuteronomy 10:1
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.
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…

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

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04Related verses

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06About Deuteronomy

Where the connections lead

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