Deuteronomy 10 A duplicate set

seekeroftruth

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Deuteronomy 10:1 At that time the Lord said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark.[a] 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the ark.”

3 So I made the ark out of acacia wood and chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands. 4 The Lord wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments he had proclaimed to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. And the Lord gave them to me. 5 Then I came back down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made, as the Lord commanded me, and they are there now.

6 (The Israelites traveled from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest. 7 From there they traveled to Gudgodah and on to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water. 8 At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister and to pronounce blessings in his name, as they still do today. 9 That is why the Levites have no share or inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the Lord is their inheritance, as the Lord your God told them.)

10 Now I had stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I did the first time, and the Lord listened to me at this time also. It was not his will to destroy you. 11 “Go,” the Lord said to me, “and lead the people on their way, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.”​

a. Deuteronomy 10:1 That is, a chest

Until a few years ago, I didn't notice the first few verses of this chapter. I knew that Moses threw the tablets down in anger. I figured the broken pieces were stored in the ark. Now I see that Moses had to craft the replacement set but God wrote the Commandments on them.

While looking through the commentaries for the quote or quotes for today, I find that the verse I'll start with tomorrow is the topic of a lot of sermons and commentaries. Today's verses seem to be the "have to do" before the "get to do" that will be used tomorrow. Maybe that's why I never noticed that Moses and God teamed up to craft the duplicate set for the ark.

Here's the commentary from the easy English site.

God listened to Moses’ prayer and God wrote the covenant again. The blocks of stone were like the first ones that Moses had broken. That meant that the covenant was the same. The covenant was this. ‘I will be your God and you will be my people.’

Moses put the blocks in a box. Later they put this box in the place where they gave honour to God. When kings of other nations made agreements with people, they did something similar. However, they gave honour to false gods, they did not give honour to the LORD God.

Somebody probably added this after the writer had finished Deuteronomy. Aaron’s son became a priest after Aaron had died. The tribe of Levi carried the box of the covenant. They served God. They blessed the Israelites and spoke the name of God. They had a lot to do and so they would not have had time to grow crops. Instead, they received money and food from the offerings that the other Israelites made to God.

Because Moses had prayed, God forgave the Israelites’ sin. They could now enter the country that God had promised to them.

When Moses went back up to get God's inscription on the tablets things didn't go any quicker. Moses was up there for forty days and forty nights. Think about it.... who else went off on their own for forty days and forty nights? An idol didn't jump out of the cauldron then either.

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