Deuteronomy 10:2-5

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²And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.

³So I [Moses] made an ark of acacia wood and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and went up the mountain ^[a]with the two tables of stone in my [one] hand.

⁴And the Lord wrote on the tables as at the first writing, the Ten Commandments which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me.

⁵And 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.

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 10:3 One of the many misconceptions of articles and events mentioned in the Bible, innocently perpetuated by artists without adequate knowledge, is that of the size of the two tables of stone on which the Ten Commandments were written. They were not great tombstone-sized slabs, but probably small rectangular plates, two of which could easily be carried in one hand. Dr. George L. Robinson brought from the Sinai area a pair of “tables of stone” believed comparable to those mentioned here, which he put in his coat pocket. Moses says here, “I... went up the mountain with the two tables of stone in my [one] hand,” and he confirms it in Exod. 34:4.