Ulangan 10:1

The Opportunity to Begin Again

10:1 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. ¹ 

Ulangan 26:3

26:3 You must go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, “I declare today to the Lord your ²  God that I have come into the land that the Lord ³  promised ⁴  to our ancestors ⁵  to give us.”

[10:1]  ¹ 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.

[26:3]  ² tc For the MT reading “your God,” certain LXX mss have “my God,” a contextually superior rendition followed by some English versions (e.g., NAB, NASB, TEV). Perhaps the text reflects dittography of the kaf (כ) at the end of the word with the following preposition כִּי (ki).

[26:3]  ³ tc The Syriac adds “your God” to complete the usual formula.

[26:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “swore on oath.”

[26:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 7, 15).