Deuteronomy 4:13 “He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the…”

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then hee declared vnto you his couenant which he commanded you to doe, euen the ten commandements, and wrote them vpon two tables of stone.

Darby Translation

And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, the ten words; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.

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.

Bible in Basic English

And he gave you his agreement with you, the ten rules which you were to keep, which he put in writing on the two stones of the law.

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Cross references

“And he”

Exodus 19:5 Deuteronomy 5:1–21 Exodus 24:17 Exodus 24:18 Hebrews 9:19 Hebrews 9:20

Exodus 19:5 · BSB

Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

Deuteronomy 5:1–21 · BSB

Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully.

Exodus 24:17 · BSB

And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.

Exodus 24:18 · BSB

Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Hebrews 9:19 · BSB

For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,

Hebrews 9:20 · BSB

saying, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”

“ten”

Exodus 34:28 Deuteronomy 10:4

Exodus 34:28 · BSB

So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

Deuteronomy 10:4 · 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,

“he wrote”

Exodus 31:18 Deuteronomy 9:9–11 Exodus 24:12 Deuteronomy 10:1–5 2 Corinthians 3:7 Hebrews 9:4

Exodus 31:18 · BSB

When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

Deuteronomy 9:9–11 · BSB

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

Exodus 24:12 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

Deuteronomy 10:1–5 · BSB

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.

2 Corinthians 3:7 · BSB

Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,

Hebrews 9:4 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12And the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of the words but saw no form; there was only a voice.

14At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

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