Deuteronomy / Question
Deuteronomy says God told Moses to cut two new stone tablets like the first after the earlier tablets were broken Deuteronomy 10:1–2. The LORD wrote on them the same words that were on the first tablets Deuteronomy 10:4. Moses then put the tablets in the ark as instructed Deuteronomy 10:5.
In Deuteronomy 10:1–5, Moses recalls how Yahweh directed him to replace the broken first stone tablets. Moses is told to cut two new tablets, come back up the mountain, and make a wooden ark. Yahweh promises to rewrite the same words that were on the first tablets. This passage continues Moses’ retelling of Israel’s failure with the calf and the aftermath of that crisis. After describing intercession and Yahweh’s response in the prior section (Deuteronomy 9:25–10:11), Moses now focuses on a concrete sign of restored order: new tablets and their placement for safekeeping.
Deuteronomy 10:1–5 presents a reset after the first tablets were broken. The text is explicit that Moses cuts new stone tablets and that Yahweh writes on them the same words as before (not a new set). The words are identified as “the ten commandments,” tied to Yahweh’s earlier speech to the whole people “from the fire” at the assembly.
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with Deuteronomy 10:1-2, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
1At that time Yahweh said to me, Hew you two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
2I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.