Deuteronomy 10:4

10:4 The Lord then wrote on the tablets the same words, the ten commandments, which he had spoken to you at the mountain from the middle of the fire at the time of that assembly, and he gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 18:22

18:22 whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; 10  the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”


tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn Heb “according to the former writing.” See note on the phrase “the same words” in v. 2.

tn Heb “ten words.” The “Ten Commandments” are known in Hebrew as the “Ten Words,” which in Greek became the “Decalogue.”

tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” earlier in this verse.

tn Heb “the Lord’s.” See note on the word “his” in v. 5.

tn Heb “the word,” but a predictive word is in view here. Cf. NAB “his oracle.”

tn Heb “does not happen or come to pass.”

tn Heb “the Lord has.” See note on the word “his” in v. 5.

10 tn Heb “that is the word which the Lord has not spoken.”