Deuteronomy 9:10

tables of stone written with the finger of God Taken exactly from. Exodus 31:18 b, E: the divine name is not changed to the usual the Lord thy God. With His own voice, face to face, God spake the words of the covenant (Deuteronomy 4:12 f., Deuteronomy 5:4) and now with His own finger wrote them. Thus by a double metaphor is the directly divine origin and supreme sanctity of the Ten Words emphasised.

all the words, which the Lord had spoken] Exodus 24:3. E.

out of the midst of the fire Deuteronomy 4:12; Deuteronomy 5:4; Deuteronomy 5:22.

day of the assembly Deuteronomy 10:4; Deuteronomy 18:16. See note on Deuteronomy 5:22.

The verse seems superfluous after 9 and before 11, and is regarded as a later intrusion (Steuern., Berth.). Note that

11 follows naturally on Deuteronomy 9:9.