Deuteronomy 10:1 — meaning, Hebrew and Greek word study, commentary
Deuteronomy 10:1
At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
time · preposition with the article + noun, common both genders singular absolute
LORD
יְהוָ֣הYah.weh
H3068
Jehovah · proper noun, a title
said
אָמַ֧ר'a.Mar
H559
to say (used with great latitude) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Hew
פְּסָלpe.sol-
H6458
to carve · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
two
שְׁנֵֽיshe.nei-
H8147
two · noun, common both genders dual construct
tables
לֻוחֹ֤תlu.Chot
H3871
probably meaning to glisten · noun, common feminine plural construct
stone
אֲבָנִים֙'a.va.Nim
H68
a stone · noun, common feminine plural absolute
first
כָּרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔יםka.Ri.sho.Nim
H7223
first · preposition with the article + ordinal number, masculine plural absolute
up
וַעֲלֵ֥הva.'a.Leh
H5927
to ascend · conjunction + verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
mount
הָהָ֑רָהha.Ha.rah
H2022
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figurative… · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute + directional suffix
make
וְעָשִׂ֥יתָve.'a.Si.ta
H6213
to do or make · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 2nd person masculine singular
ark
אֲר֥וֹן'a.Ron
H727
a box · noun, common masculine singular construct
wood
עֵֽץ'Etz
H6086
a tree (from its firmness) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
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Cross-references
Exodus 34:1-2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in th…
Exodus 25:10-15 And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, a…
Exodus 34:4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had…
Deuteronomy 10:3-4 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 m…
Hebrews 9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaro…
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Commentary
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 10:1-11
There were four things in and by which God showed himself reconciled to Israel and made them truly great and happy, and in which God's goodness took occasion from their badness to make him the more illustrious: -
I. He gave them his law, gave it to them in writing, as a standing pledge of his favour. Though the tables that were first written were broken, because Israel had broken the commandments, and God might justly break the covenant, yet when his anger was turned away the tables were renewed, Deu 10:1, Deu 10:2. Note, God's putting his law in our reconciliation to God and the best earnest of our happiness in him. Moses is told to hew the tables; for the law prepares the heart by convict…
At that time the Lord said unto me,.... On the fortieth day, mentioned in the preceding chapter, as Aben Ezra, or at the end of forty days, as Jarchi; not of the first forty, for then were given him the first two tables of stone, with the law written on them, which he broke when he came down; but at the end of the second forty days, as some think, when he had fallen before the Lord, and entreated him for the people, and, as a token of his reconciliation to them, gave the following order:
hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, &c. Of the same sort of stone, of the same size and form with those God gave him in the mount the first time he was there, and which he broke in his descent…
Deuteronomy 10:1-5, 10, 11
1. At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
1. In tempore illo dixit mihi Jehova, Dola tibi duns tabulas lapideas similes prioribus, et ascende ad me in montem, et fac tibi arcata ligneam.
2. 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.
2. Et scribam in tabulis verba quae erant in tabulis prioribus, quas fregisti, et pones eas in arca.
3. 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 tabl…
The Church Fathers
Then the Lord said to me, "Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and go up where I am on the mountain, and you will make an ark of wood. And I will write in the tables the words that were in the first tables that you broke. And you will place them in the ark. "And I made an ark of incorruptible wood, and I carved two tables of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tables in my hands. And he wrote on the tablets the same as he had written before, the ten words which the Lord had said to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire. And the Lord gave them to me. We can rightly ask why Moses collects and repeats in Deuteronomy in a different way facts that, when they are narrated in the Exodus as said and realized for the first time, are described as follows: And the Lord said to Moses: "Write these words ; for according to these words I established this alliance with you and with Israel. " And Moses was there before the Lord forty days and forty nights; He did not eat bread or drink water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. Well, if in the Exodus it is said that Moses himself wrote on the tablets the ten commandments of the Law, how is it said here, in Deuteronomy, that God wrote those same commandments on the tablets? Finally, when I incidentally discussed what is said in the Exodus and when I put in writing what I thought about that difference, I said the reason why it is said that the first tablets broken by Moses were written by the finger of God and , on the other hand, the second ones, which were to remain so long in the ark and in the tabernacle, are said to have been written by Moses. I also said there that by this difference the two Testaments had been meaning; in the Old the law is presented as the work of God, in which man did not intervene at all, since the law could not be fulfilled by fear, since when the law is really fulfilled, it is fulfilled by love, not through fear, and this love is the grace of the New Testament (Cf Rm 13,10). Therefore, when speaking of the second tables, it is said that man wrote the words of God, since man can perform the work of the law for the love of justice, which he can not do because of the fear of God. pain. Well, when we speak in Deuteronomy of the second tablets, the following is said: And I carved two tables of stone like the first and…
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Dictionary and topics
Exodus — The great deliverance wrought for the children of Isreal when they were brought out of the land of Egypt with “a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm” (Ex 12:51; Deut. 26:8; Ps 114; 136), about…
Desert, Journey Of Israel Through The · The tables of testimony renewed — The tables of testimony renewed
Stones · Commandments engraved upon — Commandments engraved upon
Table · .A second set engrave — .A second set engrave
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
The Ark was a gold-plated wooden chest that contained the stone tablets; it was kept in the Most Holy Place in the Tabernacle or Temple (Exod 25:10). Later, a pot of manna and Aaron’s flowering rod were also placed in the Ark (Heb 9:4). The Ark was the throne upon which the invisible Lord sat on earth among his people (see study notes on Exod 25:22 and Lev 16:2).
Rashi on Deuteronomy 10:1
בעת ההוא AT THAT TIME — At the end of forty days He was reconciled with me and said to me, פסל לך HEW FOR THYSELF [TWO TABLETS] and afterwards, ועשית לך ארון עץ MAKE THEE AN ARK OF WOOD. I, however, (see v. 3) made the Ark first (Midrash Tanchuma, Eikev 1), because when I came with the tablets in my hand where could I place them? Now this was not the Ark which Bezaleel made for the Tabernacle, because with the Tabernacle they did not occupy themselves until after the Day of Atonement, for only when he came down from the mountain on that day did he give them the command regarding the construction of the Tabernacle, and Bezaleel made the Tabernacle first and afterwards the Ark and the other ar…