What Does Deuteronomy 10:2 Mean in the King James?
And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The tablets break, but the words are written again and carried forward.
THE MEANING
You can encounter the words again after the tablets that held them are broken: they are written anew and placed in the ark. The breaking remains part of the account, but it does not erase what is entrusted or end its presence.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that when the vessel holding something is broken, what it carried is lost for good.
THE ROOT
שִׁבַּרְתָּ
shibbarta
GROWS FROM
שבר
To break, smash, or break into pieces.
“brakest” in this verse is shibbarta. The verse names the shattering directly, then places the same words on new tablets. The root keeps the fracture visible while the sentence shows that it does not have the final word over what is carried forward.
ALSO GROWS
shever: A break, fracture, breach, or ruin.
שֶׁבֶר
This noun makes the fracture in the verse part of a wider family of breaking and breach.
mishbar: A breaker or breaking wave.
מִשְׁבָּר
The same root can describe waves breaking; here it names the break in the tablets without making the words themselves disappear.
הַדְּבָרִים
ha-devarim
GROWS FROM
דבר
To speak; as a noun, a word, matter, or thing.
This word family spans speech and a matter or thing. The verse makes that connection concrete: the words are inscribed on tablets and kept inside the ark.
ALSO GROWS
dibber: He spoke.
דִּבֵּר
The spoken form belongs to the same root family as the words that are written again here.
davar: A word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
The singular form carries both speech and matter, fitting words that become a durable inscription and are kept.
THE PATTERN
Covenant words are written onto a vessel that can carry them, even after an earlier surface is broken.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.THE THREAD
Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.Deuteronomy places the rewritten words in the ark after the stone is broken; this verse carries the writing image into the heart. The vessel shifts from stone tablets held in a chest to a living inner surface.
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