Deuteronomy 4:13

Geneva Bible (1560)

Then hee declared vnto you his couenant which he commanded you to doe, euen the ten commaundements, and wrote them vpon two tables of stone.

📖 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 So hee was there with the Lorde fourtie dayes and fourtie nights, and did neither eat bread nor drinke water: and hee wrote in the Tables the wordes of the couenant, euen the tenne commandements.
• Exod 24:12 : 12 And the Lord said vnto Moses, Come vp to me into the mountaine, and be there, and I will giue thee tables of stone, and the law and the commandement, which I haue written, for to teach them.
• Exod 31:18 : 18 Thus (when the Lord had made an ende of communing with Moses vpon mount Sinai) he gaue him two Tables of the Testimonie, euen tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
• Exod 19:5 : 5 Now therefore if ye wil heare my voyce in deede, and keepe my couenant, then ye shalbe my chiefe treasure aboue all people, though all the earth be mine.
• Exod 24:17-18 : 17 And the sight of the glorie of the Lorde was like consuming fire on the top of the moutaine, in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 And Moses entred into the middes of the cloude, and went vp to the mountaine: and Moses was in the mount fourtie dayes and fourty nightes.
• Deut 5:1-9 : 1 Then Moses called all Israiel, and saide vnto them, Heare, O Israel, the ordinances and the lawes which I propose to you this day, that yee may learne them, and take heede to obserue them. 2 The Lord our God made a couenant with vs in Horeb. 3 The Lorde made not this couenant with our fathers onely, but with vs, euen with vs all here aliue this day. 4 The Lord talked with you face to face in the Mount, out of the middes of the fire. 5 (At that time I stoode betweene the Lorde and you, to declare vnto you ye word of the Lord: for ye were afraid at the sight of the fire, and went not vp into the mount, and he said, 6 I am the Lorde thy God, which haue brought thee out of the lande of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt haue none other gods before my face. 8 Thou shalt make thee no grauen image or any likenesse of that that is in heauen aboue, or which is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters vnder the earth. 9 Thou shalt neither bowe thy selfe vnto them, nor serue them: for I the Lord thy God am a ielous God, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, euen vnto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: 10 And shewing mercie vnto thousandes of them that loue me, and keepe my commandements. 11 Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for the Lorde will not holde him giltlesse that taketh his Name in vaine. 12 Keepe the Sabbath day, to sanctifie it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. 13 Sixe dayes thou shalt labour, and shalt doe all thy worke: 14 But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt not doe any worke therein, thou, nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man seruant, nor thy mayd, nor thine oxe, nor thine asse, neither any of thy cattel, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy man seruant and thy mayde may rest aswell as thou. 15 For, remember that thou wast a seruant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lorde thy God brought thee out thence by a mightie hand and a stretched out arme: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to obserue the Sabbath day. 16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath comanded thee, that thy dayes may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee vpon the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee. 17 Thou shalt not kill. 18 Neither shalt thou commit adulterie. 19 Neither shalt thou steale. 20 Neither shalt thou beare false witnesse against thy neighbour. 21 Neither shalt thou couet thy neighbours wife, neither shalt thou desire thy neighbours house, his fielde, nor his man seruant, nor his mayd, his oxe, nor his asse, nor ought that thy neighbour hath.
• Deut 9:9-9 : 9 When I was gone vp into the mount, to receiue the tables of stone, the tables, I say, of the couenant, which the Lord made with you: and I abode in the mount fourtie daies & fourtie nights, and I neither ate bread nor yet dranke water: 10 Then the Lorde deliuered me two tables of stone, written with the finger of God, and in them was conteyned according to all the wordes which the Lorde had said vnto you in the mount out of the middes of the fire, in the day of the assemblie. 11 And when the fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes were ended, the Lorde gaue me the two tables of stone, the tables, I say, of the couenant.
• Deut 10:1-5 : 1 In the same time the Lord said vnto me, Hewe thee two Tables of stone like vnto the first, and come vp vnto me into the Mount, and make thee an Arke of wood, 2 And I will write vpon the Tables ye wordes that were vpon the first Tables, which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the Arke. 3 And I made an Arke of Shittim wood, and hewed two Tables of stone like vnto the first, and went vp into the Mountaine, and the two Tables in mine hand. 4 Then he wrote vpon the Tables according to the first writing (the tenne commandements, which the Lord spake vnto you in the Mount out of the middes of the fire, in the day of the assemblie) and the Lord gaue them vnto me. 5 And I departed, and came downe from the Mount, and put the Tables in the Arke which I had made: and there they be, as the Lorde commanded me.
• 2 Cor 3:7 : 7 If then the ministration of death written with letters and ingrauen in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel coulde not beholde the face of Moses, for the glorie of his countenance (which glorie is done away.)
• Heb 9:4 : 4 Which had the golden censer, and the Arke of the Testament ouerlayde rounde about with golde, wherein the golden pot, which had Manna, was, and Aarons rod that had budded, and the tables of the Testament.
• Heb 9:19-20 : 19 For when Moses had spoken euery precept to the people, according to the Law, he tooke the blood of calues and of goates, with water and purple wooll and hyssope, and sprinckled both the booke, and all the people, 20 Saying, This is the blood of the Testament, which God hath appointed vnto you.