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 day of the assembly.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Moses addresses the Israelites immediately after his forty-day fast on the mountain, reporting that God delivered the stone tablets to him.

The words — The Hebrew verb וַ/יִּתֵּ֨ן (va/yi.tten) translates literally as "and he gave," while כְּתֻבִ֖ים (ke.tu.vim) means "inscribed," together marking the tablets as divinely authored and permanently recorded.

The thread — The delivery matches Exodus 31:18, where God finishes speaking and hands over the tablets, and Deuteronomy 10:4, which notes God rewrote the Ten Commandments on them.

Why it lands — The text establishes that covenant law originated from God's direct speech at the assembly, requiring readers to treat the recorded words as authoritative and non-negotiable.

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The Hebrew words

King James Version

And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

Cross-references

Exodus 31:18 When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
Deuteronomy 10:4 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,
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 this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!”
Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
Exodus 19:17 Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.
Exodus 20:1 And God spoke all these words:
Deuteronomy 4:10 The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
Deuteronomy 5:6 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Matthew 12:28 But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Luke 11:20 But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.