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.”
Parallel translations
- KJV 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.
- BSB 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.”
- NKJV And 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.’
- NASB Then I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you smashed to pieces, and you shall put them in the ark.’
- NLT and I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the ones you smashed. Then place the tablets in the Ark.’
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- 1 Kgs 8:9There 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.
- Exod 40:20He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
- Deut 4:13He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.
- Heb 9:4having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
- Exod 25:16–22You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.
- Deut 10:5I 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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