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.’
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.”
- 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.’
- 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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Quick answer
God promised to rewrite the same words on the new tablets, to be kept in the ark. The unchanging law is restored and given a permanent dwelling.
Overview
The Lord wrote the identical commandments again, showing that His moral standard had not changed despite Israel's failure. Placing the tablets in the ark made the law central to Israel's worship at the heart of the tabernacle. The enduring law housed near God's presence anticipates the gospel reality of the law written on believers' hearts through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- 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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