Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 9:9-10 
Context9:9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there 1 forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing. 9:10 The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger 2 of God, and on them was everything 3 he 4 said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.
Deuteronomy 10:1
Context10:1 At that same time the Lord said to me, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark. 5
Deuteronomy 10:3
Context10:3 So I made an ark of acacia 6 wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.
Deuteronomy 13:10
Context13:10 You must stone him to death 7 because he tried to entice you away from the Lord your God, who delivered you from the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.
Deuteronomy 17:5
Context17:5 you must bring to your city gates 8 that man or woman who has done this wicked thing – that very man or woman – and you must stone that person to death. 9
Deuteronomy 21:21
Context21:21 Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out 10 wickedness from among you, and all Israel 11 will hear about it and be afraid.
Deuteronomy 25:15
Context25:15 You must have an accurate and correct 12 stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you.
Deuteronomy 28:36
Context28:36 The Lord will force you and your king 13 whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.
Deuteronomy 28:64
Context28:64 The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.
1 tn Heb “in the mountain.” The demonstrative pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.
2 sn The very finger of God. This is a double figure of speech (1) in which God is ascribed human features (anthropomorphism) and (2) in which a part stands for the whole (synecdoche). That is, God, as Spirit, has no literal finger nor, if he had, would he write with his finger. Rather, the sense is that God himself – not Moses in any way – was responsible for the composition of the Ten Commandments (cf. Exod 31:18; 32:16; 34:1).
3 tn Heb “according to all the words.”
4 tn Heb “the
5 tn Or “chest” (so NIV, CEV); NLT “sacred chest”; TEV “wooden box.” This chest was made of acacia wood; it is later known as the ark of the covenant.
6 sn Acacia wood (Heb “shittim wood”). This is wood from the acacia, the most common timber tree of the Sinai region. Most likely it is the species Acacia raddiana because this has the largest trunk. See F. N. Hepper, Illustrated Encyclopedia of Bible Plants, 63.
7 sn Execution by means of pelting the offender with stones afforded a mechanism whereby the whole community could share in it. In a very real sense it could be done not only in the name of the community and on its behalf but by its members (cf. Lev 24:14; Num 15:35; Deut 21:21; Josh 7:25).
8 tn Heb “gates.”
9 tn Heb “stone them with stones so that they die” (KJV similar); NCV “throw stones at that person until he dies.”
10 tn The Hebrew term בִּעַרְתָּה (bi’artah), here and elsewhere in such contexts (cf. Deut 13:5; 17:7, 12; 19:19; 21:9), suggests God’s anger which consumes like fire (thus בָעַר, ba’ar, “to burn”). See H. Ringgren, TDOT 2:203-4.
11 tc Some LXX traditions read הַנִּשְׁאָרִים (hannish’arim, “those who remain”) for the MT’s יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra’el, “Israel”), understandable in light of Deut 19:20. However, the more difficult reading found in the MT is more likely original.
12 tn Or “just”; Heb “righteous.”
13 tc The LXX reads the plural “kings.”
