I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
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I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
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And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
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And I turned and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the LORD commanded me. —
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 10:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 34:29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
- Exodus 40:20 He took and put the covenant into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
- Deuteronomy 10:2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.”
- Exodus 25:16 You shall put the covenant which I shall give you into the ark.
- Exodus 32:15 Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides. They were written on one side and on the other.
- Deuteronomy 9:15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
- Joshua 4:9 Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.
- 1 Kings 8:8-9 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside. They are there to this day. There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 10:5 And I turned myself and came down…
Deu 10:5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
Ver. 5. And put the tables in the ark.] Which was thenceforth called "the ark of the testimony."
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I turned myself,.... From the Lord, out of…
And I turned myself,.... From the Lord, out of whose hands he had received the tables:
and came down from the mount; with the two tables in his hand as before, one in one hand, and the other in the other hand:
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and put the tables in the ark which I had made; or ordered to be made:
and there they be, as the Lord commanded me; there they were when Moses rehearsed what is contained in this book, on the plains of Moab, about thirty eight years after the putting them, into it; and there they continued to be when the ark was brought into Solomon's temple, Kg1 8:9 and there they were as long as the ark was in being; which may denote the continuance of the law in the hands of Christ under the Gospel dispensation as a rule of walk and conversation to his people.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain I . . . put the tables in the…
I . . . put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me--Here is another minute, but important circumstance, the public mention of which at the time attests the veracity of the sacred historian.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. And I turned and came down from the…
5. And I turned and came down from the mount] So Deu_9:15 and Exo_32:15, E, but of Moses’ first descent with the tables.
and put the tables in the ark] This also certainly from the original form of E; see above, general note on Deu_10:1-3. P, Exo_40:20 has put the testimony in the ark.
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and there they be] Whether this is said in accommodation to the date of the speaker, or as still true of the writer’s time in the seventh century, is uncertain. See above, the general note on Deu_10:1-3. All that is certain is that such was the fact till at least the time of Solomon, cp. 1Ki_8:9.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (5) I . . . put the tables in…
(5) I . . . put the tables in the ark which I (had) made; and there they be.—Or, and they were there, or they continued there. According to the narrative in Exodus, the ark in which the tables ultimately remained was made afterwards. The English reader must not be misled by the word “had” in “I had made.” There is no pluperfect in Hebrew. The time of an action is determined not so much by the form of the verb as by its relation to the context. “I put the tables in the ark which I made, and they remained there,” is the literal sense. “I made” may very well mean “I caused to be made,” and refers to the ark which Bezaleel constructed under Moses’ directions.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Moses continues to remind the people of Israel about what happened in the past.
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I turned
Here "I" refers to Moses.
came down from the mountain
"came down from Mount Sinai"
in the ark
"in the box" or "in the chest"
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Yahweh
command
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 10:5 still there: Occasionally, phrases such as this one…
10:5 still there: Occasionally, phrases such as this one appear in Deuteronomy, indicating that the book received final touches sometime after Moses originally composed it. At the time the book was finally edited, the stone tablets were still in the Ark.
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