Deuteronomy 10:5
New International Version
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.

New Living Translation
Then I turned and came down the mountain and placed the tablets in the Ark of the Covenant, which I had made, just as the LORD commanded me. And the tablets are still there in the Ark.”

English Standard Version
Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark that I had made. And there they are, as the LORD commanded me.”

Berean Standard Bible
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.

King James Bible
And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.

New King James Version
Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are, just as the LORD commanded me.”

New American Standard Bible
Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and I put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and they are there, just as the LORD commanded me.”

NASB 1995
“Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the LORD commanded me.”

NASB 1977
“Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the LORD commanded me.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as Yahweh commanded me.”

Amplified Bible
Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and they are there, just as the LORD commanded me.”

Christian Standard Bible
and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made. And they have remained there, as the LORD commanded me.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made. And they have remained there, as the LORD commanded me.”

American Standard Version
And I turned and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Jehovah commanded me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I turned and I came down from the mountain and I set the tablets in the Ark that I had made and I left them in it as LORD JEHOVAH commanded me.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And I turned and came down from the mountain, and I put the tables into the ark which I had made; and there they were, as the Lord commanded me.

Contemporary English Version
I took them down the mountainside and put them in the chest, just as he had commanded. And they are still there.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And returning from the mount, I came down, and put the tables into the ark, that I had made, and they are there till this present, as the Lord commanded me.

English Revised Version
And I turned and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I came back down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made. They are still there, where the LORD commanded me to put them.

Good News Translation
and I turned and went down the mountain. Then, just as the LORD had commanded, I put them in the Box that I had made--and they have been there ever since." (

International Standard Version
Then I turned, went down the mountain, and placed the tablets in the chest that I had made. They are there now, just as the LORD commanded me."

JPS Tanakh 1917
And I turned and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the LORD commanded me.--

Literal Standard Version
and I turn and come down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the Ark which I had made, and they are there, as YHWH commanded me.

Majority Standard Bible
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.

New American Bible
Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and placed the tablets in the ark I had made. There they have remained, as the LORD commanded me.

NET Bible
Then I turned, went down the mountain, and placed the tablets into the ark I had made--they are still there, just as the LORD commanded me.

New Revised Standard Version
So I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark that I had made; and there they are, as the LORD commanded me.

New Heart English Bible
I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as the LORD commanded me.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the LORD commanded me.

World English Bible
I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.

Young's Literal Translation
and I turn and come down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made, and they are there, as Jehovah commanded me.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The New Tablets of Stone
4And 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, 5and 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. 6The Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest.…

Cross References
Exodus 34:29
And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was unaware that his face had become radiant from speaking with the LORD.

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.

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.


Treasury of Scripture

And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.

I turned

Deuteronomy 9:15
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

Exodus 32:15
And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.

Exodus 34:29
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

put the

Deuteronomy 10:2
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.

Exodus 25:16
And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.

Exodus 40:20
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:

there they

Joshua 4:9
And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.

1 Kings 8:8,9
And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day…

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Deuteronomy 10
1. God's mercy in restoring the two tablets
6. in continuing the priesthood
8. in separating the tribe of Levi
10. in hearkening unto Moses' plea for his people
12. An exhortation to obedience














(5) I . . . put the tables in the ark which I (had) made; and there they be.--Or, and they were there, or they continued there. According to the narrative in Exodus, the ark in which the tables ultimately remained was made afterwards. The English reader must not be misled by the word "had" in "I had made." There is no pluperfect in Hebrew. The time of an action is determined not so much by the form of the verb as by its relation to the context. "I put the tables in the ark which I made, and they remained there," is the literal sense. "I made" may very well mean "I caused to be made," and refers to the ark which Bezaleel constructed under Moses' directions.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
and I went back
וָאֵ֗פֶן (wā·’ê·p̄en)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6437: To turn, to face, appear, look

down
וָֽאֵרֵד֙ (wā·’ê·rêḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend

the mountain
הָהָ֔ר (hā·hār)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

and placed
וָֽאָשִׂם֙ (wā·’ā·śim)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

the tablets
הַלֻּחֹ֔ת (hal·lu·ḥōṯ)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3871: To glisten, a tablet, of stone, wood, metal

in the ark
בָּאָר֖וֹן (bā·’ā·rō·wn)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 727: A chest, ark

I had made,
עָשִׂ֑יתִי (‘ā·śî·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

as
אֲשֶׁ֣ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

the LORD
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

had commanded me,
צִוַּ֖נִי (ṣiw·wa·nî)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 6680: To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order

and there
שָׁ֔ם (šām)
Adverb
Strong's 8033: There, then, thither

they have remained.
וַיִּ֣הְיוּ (way·yih·yū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be


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