Deuteronomy 10:1 - Renewed Exhortations To Obedience.

At that time. When Moses thus interceded, God commanded him to prepare two new tables of stone, and to construct an ark in which to keep them (cf. Exodus 34:1 , etc.). Directions had been given for the construction of the ark before the apostasy of the people, and it was not made till after the tabernacle had been erected, nor were the tables placed in it till the tabernacle had been consecrated (cf. Exodus 25:10 , etc.; Exodus 40:20 ). But as the things themselves were closely connected, Moses mentions them here together, without regard to chronological order.