Deuteronomy 10
Lutheran reading notes
In Deuteronomy chapter 10, the story continues to develop the theme of renewal of the covenant and preparation to enter the promised land. Lutheran interpretation often highlights how the events reveal humanity’s need for God’s grace and the reliability of God's promises. The chapter illustrates both the reality of human weakness and the faithfulness of God who works through history.
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At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
Deuteronomy 10:1 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Deuteronomy 10:2 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I made an ark {of} shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
Deuteronomy 10:3 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me. {commandments: Heb. words}
Deuteronomy 10:4 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Deuteronomy 10:5 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.
Deuteronomy 10:6 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
Deuteronomy 10:7 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
Deuteronomy 10:8 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD {is} his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.
Deuteronomy 10:9 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, {and} the LORD would not destroy thee. {first...: or, former days}
Deuteronomy 10:10 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take {thy} journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them. {take...: Heb. go in journey}
Deuteronomy 10:11 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
Deuteronomy 10:12 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
Deuteronomy 10:13 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens {is} the LORD'S thy God, the earth {also}, with all that therein {is}.
Deuteronomy 10:14 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, {even} you above all people, as {it is} this day.
Deuteronomy 10:15 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Deuteronomy 10:16 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the LORD your God {is} God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
Deuteronomy 10:17 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Deuteronomy 10:18 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:19 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
Deuteronomy 10:20 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He {is} thy praise, and he {is} thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
Deuteronomy 10:21 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Deuteronomy 10:22 highlights covenant renewal with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.