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Deuteronomy 10:2
And 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.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Moses on the mountain following the destruction of the first tablets, commanding him to prepare a wooden ark and receive renewed covenant documents.
The words — וְ/אֶכְתֹּב (ve./'ekh.to) translates to "so I may inscribe" and לֻּחֹת (lu.Chot) means "tablets." These terms establish the divine act of recording the covenant text onto stone surfaces.
The thread — The placement of these tablets in the ark appears in Exodus 25:16 and Exodus 40:20, while 1 Kings 8:9 records that only these two stone tablets remained in the ark at the temple.
Why it lands — The reader must recognize that covenant renewal requires divine inscription rather than human restoration, and that the ark functions as the designated repository for God's written word.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- 1 Kings 8:9 There 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 of the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 25:16 And place inside the ark the Testimony, which I will give you.
- Exodus 40:20 Moses took the Testimony and placed it in the ark, attaching the poles to the ark; and he set the mercy seat atop the ark.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 10:5 and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD had commanded me; and there they have remained.
- 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.