Once again the Lord wrote the Ten Commandments on the tablets and gave them to me. They were the same words the Lord had spoken to you from the heart of the fire on the day you were assembled at the foot of the mountain.
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- WEB He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yahweh gave them to me.
- KJV And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
- BSB 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,
- NKJV And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the Lord had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me.
- NASB Then He wrote on the tablets, like the first writing, the Ten Commandments which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me.
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Quick answer
God rewrote the Ten Commandments, the words spoken from the fire at the assembly, and gave them to Moses. The Decalogue stands as the covenant's enduring core.
Overview
The renewed tablets bore the same Ten Commandments first proclaimed amid fire at Horeb. By restoring this very summary of His will, God reaffirmed the foundation of His covenant with Israel. These commandments remain the abiding expression of God's righteous character, fulfilled and upheld in the life and teaching of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Deut 9:10Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.
- Exod 34:28He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
- Deut 4:11–15You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
- Deut 18:16This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again Yahweh my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.”
- Heb 12:18–19For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
- Deut 5:4–26Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,
- Exod 19:17–18Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.
- Exod 20:1–17God spoke all these words, saying,
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