Deuteronomy 4:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he gave you his agreement with you, the ten rules which you were to keep, which he put in writing on the two stones of the law.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּגֵּ֨ד לָכֶ֜ם אֶת־בְּרִית֗וֹ אֲשֶׁ֨ר צִוָּ֤ה אֶתְכֶם֙ לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת עֲשֶׂ֖רֶת הַדְּבָרִ֑ים וַֽיִּכְתְּבֵ֔ם עַל־שְׁנֵ֖י לֻח֥וֹת אֲבָנִֽים

Transliteration

And-wayyaggēd to-you ʾet-his-bᵉrîtô which ṣiwwâ ʾetkhem to-laʿăśôt, ʿăśeret the-dᵉbārîm, and-wayyiktᵉbēm upon-shᵉnê luḥôt ʾăbānîm

Grammar Details

• *wa*: conjunction - and
• *yyaggēd*: verb, hiphil imperfect, third person masculine singular - he declared
• *lākem*: preposition with second person masculine plural suffix - to you
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *bᵉrîtô*: noun, feminine singular with third person masculine singular suffix - his covenant
• *ʾăsher*: relative pronoun - which/that
• *ṣiwwâ*: verb, piel perfect, third person masculine singular - he commanded
• *ʾetkhem*: direct object marker with second person masculine plural suffix - you
• *laʿăśôt*: preposition with infinitive construct, qal - to do/perform
• *ʿăśeret*: cardinal number, feminine construct - ten of
• *dᵉbārîm*: noun, masculine plural - words/things
• *wayyiktᵉbēm*: conjunction with verb, qal imperfect, third person masculine singular with third person masculine plural suffix - and he wrote them
• *ʿal*: preposition - upon/on
• *shᵉnê*: cardinal number, masculine dual construct - two of
• *luḥôt*: noun, masculine plural construct - tablets of
• *ʾăbānîm*: noun, feminine plural - stones

Word Meanings

• *yyaggēd*: he declared/he told/he announced
• *bᵉrîtô*: his covenant/his agreement/his treaty
• *ṣiwwâ*: he commanded/he ordered/he instructed
• *laʿăśôt*: to do/to perform/to practice
• *ʿăśeret*: ten/tenth
• *dᵉbārîm*: words/sayings/commandments
• *wayyiktᵉbēm*: and he wrote them/and he inscribed them
• *luḥôt*: tablets/plates/boards
• *ʾăbānîm*: stones/rocks

Referenced Verses

• Exod 34:28 : 28 And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.
• Exod 24:12 : 12 And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me on the mountain, and take your place there: and I will give you the stones on which I have put in writing the law and the orders, so that you may give the people knowledge of them.
• Exod 31:18 : 18 And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he gave him the two stones of the law, two stones on which was the writing made by the finger of God.
• Exod 19:5 : 5 If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:
• Exod 24:17-18 : 17 And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 And Moses went up the mountain, into the cloud, and was there for forty days and forty nights.
• Deut 5:1-9 : 1 And Moses sent for all Israel, and said to them, Give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I give you today, and give attention to them so that you may keep and do them. 2 The Lord our God made an agreement with us in Horeb. 3 The Lord did not make this agreement with our fathers but with us, who are all living and present here today. 4 The word of the Lord came to you face to face on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, 5 (I was between the Lord and you at that time, to make clear to you the word of the Lord: because, through fear of the fire, you did not go up the mountain;) saying, 6 I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house. 7 You are to have no other gods but me. 8 You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth: 9 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters; 10 And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws. 11 You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged as a sinner by the Lord. 12 Keep the Sabbath day as a holy day, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God. 13 On six days do all your work: 14 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you. 15 And keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out of that land by his strong hand and his stretched-out arm: for this reason the Lord has given you orders to keep the Sabbath day. 16 Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. 17 Do not put anyone to death without cause. 18 Do not be false to the married relation. 19 Do not take the property of another. 20 Do not give false witness against your neighbour; 21 Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is your neighbour's.
• Deut 9:9-9 : 9 When I had gone up into the mountain to be given the stones on which was recorded the agreement which the Lord made with you, I was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights without taking food or drinking water. 10 And the Lord gave me the two stones with writing on them done by the finger of God: on them were recorded all the words which the Lord said to you on the mountain out of the heart of the fire, on the day of the great meeting. 11 Then at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me those stones, the stones of the agreement.
• Deut 10:1-5 : 1 At that time the Lord said to me, Make two other stones, cut like the first two, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood. 2 And I will put on the stones the words which were on the first stones which were broken by you, and you are to put them into the ark. 3 So I made an ark of hard wood, and had two stones cut like the others, and went up the mountain with the stones in my hands. 4 And he put on the stones, as in the first writing, the ten rules which the Lord gave you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the great meeting: and the Lord gave the stones to me. 5 And turning round I came down from the mountain and put the stones in the ark which I had made; and there they are as the Lord gave me orders.
• 2 Cor 3:7 : 7 For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time:
• Heb 9:4 : 4 Having a vessel of gold in it for burning perfumes, and the ark of the agreement, which was covered with gold and which had in it a pot made of gold for the manna, and Aaron's rod which put out buds, and the stones with the writing of the agreement;
• Heb 9:19-20 : 19 For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people, 20 Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you.