Deuteronomy 10:4 BSB

Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּכְתֹּ֨ב	vai.yikh.To	and he wrote	H3789 →
עַֽל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
הַלֻּחֹ֜ת	ha.lu.Chot	the tablets	H3871 →
כַּמִּכְתָּ֣ב	ka.mikh.Tav	like the writing	H4385 →
הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן	ha.ri.Shon	<the> former	H7223 →
אֵ֚ת	'et	<obj.>	H853 →
עֲשֶׂ֣רֶת	'a.Se.ret	[the] ten	H6235 →
הַדְּבָרִ֔ים	ha.de.va.Rim	the words	H1697 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
דִּבֶּר֩	di.Ber	he had spoken	H1696 →
יְהוָ֨ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֲלֵיכֶ֥ם	'a.lei.Khem	to you	H413 →
בָּהָ֛ר	ba.Har	on the mountain	H2022 →
מִתּ֥וֹךְ	mi.Tokh	from [the] middle of	H8432 →
הָאֵ֖שׁ	ha.'Esh	the fire	H784 →
בְּי֣וֹם	be.Yom	on [the] day of	H3117 →
הַקָּהָ֑ל	ha.ka.Hal	the assembly	H6951 →
וַיִּתְּנֵ֥ם	vai.yi.te.Nem	and he gave them	H5414 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֵלָֽי׃	'e.Lai	to me	H413 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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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
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…
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.
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…

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Deuteronomy 9:10Then 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 day of the assembly.Exodus 34:28So 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 4:11–15You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.Hebrews 12:18–19For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;Deuteronomy 18:16This 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 this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!”Deuteronomy 5:4–26The LORD spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.Exodus 20:1–17And God spoke all these words:Exodus 19:17–18Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

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