Deuteronomy 4:13 Cross References - ISV

¹³ He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to observe—the Ten Commandments that he wrote on two stone tablets.

⁵ And now if you carefully obey me and keep my covenant, you are to be my special possession out of all the peoples, because the whole earth belongs to me,

¹² Moses Receives the Law on the MountainThen the LORD told Moses, “Go up to me on the mountain and stay there. I’ll give you stone tablets with the instruction and law that I’ve written to teach the people.”

¹⁷ To the Israelis the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on top of the mountain. ¹⁸ When Moses went up on the mountain, he went into the center of the cloud and was on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights.

¹⁸ When he finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two Tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone written by the finger of God.

²⁸ While Moses was there with the LORD for 40 days and 40 nights, he did not eat or drink. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.

¹ The Ten Commandments
Moses called all of Israel together and told them: “Listen, Israel! Today I’m going to announce God’s laws and regulations so that you will learn them and take care to obey them. ² When the LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb, ³ it was not with our ancestors that the LORD made this covenant, but with us—we who are here today—all of us who are now living. ⁴ The LORD spoke to you face to face on the mountain from the fire. ⁵ I stood at that time as mediator between the LORD and you to declare his message to you, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain. He said:א ⁶ “‘I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt—from the house of slavery.ב ⁷ “‘You are to have no other gods besides me ⁸ “You are not to make for yourselves a carved image resembling any form in the heavens above, on earth below, or in the waters under the earth. ⁹ You are not to bow down to them in worship or serve them, because I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the iniquity of their parents to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, ¹⁰ but showing gracious love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.ג ¹¹ “‘You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will not leave the one who misues his name unpunished.ד ¹² “‘You are to keep the Sabbath day holy, just as the LORD your God commanded. ¹³ Six days you are to labor and do all your work, ¹⁴ but the seventh day is a Sabbath for the LORD your God. You are not to do any work—neither you, your children, your male and female servants, your oxen and donkeys, nor any of your livestock—as well as any of the foreigners who live among you, so that your male and female servants may rest as you do. ¹⁵ You are to remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, but the LORD your God brought you out from there with great power and a show of force. Therefore, the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.ה ¹⁶ “‘You are to honor your father and your mother, just as the LORD your God commanded you, so that your life will be long and things will go well for you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.ו ¹⁷ “‘You are not to murder.ז ¹⁸ “‘You are not to commit adultery.ח ¹⁹ “‘You are not to steal.ט ²⁰ “‘You are not to testify falsely against your neighbor.י ²¹ “‘You are not to desire your neighbor’s wife nor covet your neighbor’s house, his fields, his male and female servants, his ox, his donkey, nor anything that concerns your neighbor.’”

⁹ Then I went up to the mountain to receive the two stone Tablets of the Covenant that the LORD had established with you. I stayed on the mountain for 40 days and nights without eating food or drinking water. ¹⁰ Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets on which God inscribed with his own finger all the words that the LORD spoke to you on the mountain from the middle of the fire that day when you were all assembled together. ¹¹ At the end of 40 days and nights, the LORD gave to me the two stone Tablets of the Covenant.

¹ A Copy of the Ten Commandments“At that time, the LORD told me, ‘Chisel two tablets of stone for yourself just like the first ones, and then come up to me on the mountain. Also make for yourself a wooden chest. ² I’ll write on the tablets what was on the first tablets that you broke. Then place them in the wooden chest.’ ³ So I made a chest out of acacia wood and chiseled two tablets of stones just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands. ⁴ Then the LORD inscribed on the tablets what he wrote before, that is, the Ten Commandments that the LORD declared to you on the mountain from the middle of the fire during the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me. ⁵ 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.”

⁷ Now if the ministry of death that was inscribed in letters of stone came with such glory that the people of Israel could not gaze on Moses’ face (because the glory was fading away from it),

⁴ which had the gold altar for incense and the Ark of the Covenant completely covered with gold. In it were the gold jar holding the manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the Tablets of the Covenant.

¹⁹ For after every commandment in the Law had been spoken to all the people by Moses, he took the blood of calves and goats, together with some water, scarlet wool, and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people, ²⁰ saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God ordained for you.”