Deuteronomy 10:5
Good News Translation
and I turned and went down the mountain. Then, just as the LORD had commanded, I put them in the Box that I had made--and they have been there ever since." (

New Revised Standard Version
So I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark that I had made; and there they are, as the LORD commanded me.

Contemporary English Version
I took them down the mountainside and put them in the chest, just as he had commanded. And they are still there.

New American Bible
Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and placed the tablets in the ark I had made. There they have remained, as the LORD commanded me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And returning from the mount, I came down, and put the tables into the ark, that I had made, and they are there till this present, as the Lord commanded me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And returning from the mount, I came down, and put the tables into the ark, that I had made, and they are there till this present, as the Lord commanded me.

I turned

Deuteronomy 9:15 And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the two tables of the covenant with both hands,

Exodus 32:15 And Moses returned from the mount, carrying the two tables of the testimony in his hand, written on both sides,

Exodus 34:29 And when Moses came down from the Mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord.

put the

Deuteronomy 10:2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in them, which thou brokest before, and thou shalt put them in the ark.

Exodus 25:16 And thou shalt put in the ark the testimony which I will give thee.

Exodus 40:20 And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle above.

there they

Joshua 4:9 And Joshua put other twelve stones in the midst of the channel of the Jordan, where the priests stood that carried the ark of the covenant: and they are there until this present day.

1 Kings 8:8,9 And whereas the staves stood out, the ends of them were seen without, in the sanctuary before the oracle, but were not seen farther out, and there they have been unto this day. . . .

Context
The New Tablets of Stone
4And he wrote in the tables, according as he had written before, the ten words, which the Lord spoke to you in the mount from the midst of the fire, when the people were assembled: and he gave them to me. 5And returning from the mount, I came down, and put the tables into the ark, that I had made, and they are there till this present, as the Lord commanded me.6And the children of Israel removed their camp from Beroth, of the children of Jacan into Mosera, where Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him in the priestly office.…
Cross References
Exodus 34:29
And when Moses came down from the Mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord.

Exodus 40:20
And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle above.

1 Kings 8:9
Now in the ark there was nothing else but the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 10:4
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