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Deuteronomy 10:2

1 At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

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.”

3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

4 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,

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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.”
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.
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.”
ASV
And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
DARBY
and I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou didst break, and thou shalt lay them in the ark.
BLB
And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.”
ÅB
så vil jeg skrive på tavlene de ord som sto på de første tavler, de som du slo i stykker, og du skal legge dem i arken.
OTB
Jeg vil skrive på tavlene de ordene som var på de første tavlene, som du knuste. Så skal du legge dem i arken.»
B1930
så vil jeg skrive på tavlene de ord som stod på de første tavler, de som du slo i stykker, og du skal legge dem i arken.

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  • 1 Kings 8:9

    There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.

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  • Exodus 25:16–22

    And place inside the ark the Testimony, which I will give you.

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  • Exodus 40:20

    Moses took the Testimony and placed it in the ark, attaching the poles to the ark; and he set the mercy seat atop the ark.

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  • Hebrews 9:4

    containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.

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  • Deuteronomy 4:13

    He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.

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  • Deuteronomy 10:5

    and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD had commanded me; and there they have remained.

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