King James Version

What Does Deuteronomy 9:10 Mean?

And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

Context

8

Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.

9

When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

10

And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

11

And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

12

And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

Commentary

Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers
(10) **Two tables of stone.**—Of these tables it is said in Exodus 32:16, “the *tables *were the *work *of God, and *the writing was the writing *of God, graven upon the tables.”

Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.

Historical Context

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