KJV King James Version
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, [even] ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
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Deuteronomy 4:13
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, [even] ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.
WEB World English Bible
He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
ASV American Standard Version
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and He declareth to you His covenant, which He hath commanded you to do, the Ten Matters, and He writeth them upon two tables of stone.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 4
10 [Specially] the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and [that] they may teach their children.
11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only [ye heard] a voice.
13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, [even] ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day [that] the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt [yourselves], and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
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וַיַּגֵּ֨דH5046 · na.gadto tellלָכֶ֜םH9036 · khemyouאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]בְּרִית֗וֹH1285 · be.ritcovenantאֲשֶׁ֨רH834 · a.sherwhichצִוָּ֤הH6680 · tsa.vahto commandאֶתְכֶם֙H853 · et[Obj.]לַעֲשׂ֔וֹתH6213 · a.sahto make: doעֲשֶׂ֖רֶתH6235 · e.sertenהַדְּבָרִ֑יםH1697 · da.varwordוַֽיִּכְתְּבֵ֔םH3789 · ka.tavto writeעַל־H5921 · aluponשְׁנֵ֖יH8147 · she.na.yimtwoלֻח֥וֹתH3871 · lu.achtabletאֲבָנִֽים׃H68 · e.venstone
Cross-references
Exodus 34:28And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.Exodus 31:18And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.Exodus 24:12And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.Deuteronomy 9:9-11When 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:Exodus 19:5Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is] mine:Deuteronomy 10:1-5At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.Deuteronomy 5:1-21And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.Hebrews 9:19-20For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,Exodus 24:17-18And the sight of the glory of the LORD [was] like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.Hebrews 9:4Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein [was] the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;2 Corinthians 3:7But if the ministration of death, written [and] engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which [glory] was to be done away:
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