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Deuteronomy 10:2 Explained in Context

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Verse 2. 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.

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Deuteronomy 10:2 promises the same words on the new tablets and their preservation.

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  • Deuteronomy 10:1–11

Read Deuteronomy 10:2 with 10:1–11. It promises the same words on the new tablets and their preservation. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: Replacement tablets, an ark, Moses' second forty days, Aaron's death, Eleazar's succession, Levi's service, and the command to journey show covenant renewal after the calf.

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Read Deuteronomy 10:1–11 — Tablets Are Rewritten and the Journey Continues
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King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

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Exact location: Deuteronomy 10:1–11, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Deuteronomy

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Open Scriptures, release 2.2

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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Deut.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 10:1–11

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