Deuteronomy 4:13Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

And he shewed you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, and the ten words that he wrote in two tables of stone.
Douay-Rheims

וַיַּגֵּ֨ד לָכֶ֜ם אֶת־בְּרִית֗וֹ אֲשֶׁ֨ר צִוָּ֤ה אֶתְכֶם֙ לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת עֲשֶׂ֖רֶת הַדְּבָרִ֑ים וַֽיִּכְתְּבֵ֔ם עַל־שְׁנֵ֖י לֻח֥וֹת אֲבָנִֽים׃
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Vissarion (Nechaev)

19th centuryCommentator

The covenant that the Lord proclaimed to the children of Israel through His voice refers to the Ten Commandments, which serve as the basis for their relationship with God. They were to uphold these commandments diligently to be deserving of the honor of being recognized as God's chosen people.

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Passages read together with this verse.

Ex 34:28And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights: he neither ate bread nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tables the ten words of the covenant.
Ex 24:12And the Lord said to Moses: Come up to me into the mount, and be there; and I will give thee tables of stone, and the law, and the commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Ex 31:18And the Lord, when he had ended these words in Mount Sinai, gave to Moses two stone tables of testimony, written with the finger of God.
Ex 19:5If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine.
Deut 9:9When I went up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you: and I continued in the mount forty days and nights, neither eating bread, nor drinking water.
Deut 9:11And when forty days were passed, and as many nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant,
Deut 10:1At that time the Lord said to me: Hew thee two tables of stone like the former, and come up to me into the mount: and thou shalt make an ark of wood,
Deut 10:5And 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.