Deuteronomy 10: Group Study Handout

How to use: read Deuteronomy 10 aloud together, then take the questions in order. One page is enough for an evening.

Overview

Yahweh commands Moses to cut two stone tablets, similar to the first, and to create an ark of wood to hold them (vv. 1-2). Moses obeys, crafting the ark and bringing the new tablets to the mountain where Yahweh writes the Ten Commandments once more (vv.

Key verse

“Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,”
Deuteronomy 10:12 (WEB)

Outline

Deuteronomy 10:1–5 New Tablets and the Ark
Deuteronomy 10:6–9 Levi's Unique Role
Deuteronomy 10:10–11 Moses' Intercession
Deuteronomy 10:12–15 Requirements of God
Deuteronomy 10:16–19 Heart Obedience
Deuteronomy 10:20–22 Praise and Remembrance

Discussion questions

In v2, what does Yahweh instruct Moses to do with the stone tablets?
What does Moses do with the tablets in v5 after coming down from the mountain?
The phrase 'circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart' in v16: what does it suggest about Israel's spiritual condition?
In v15, why does Moses emphasize that Yahweh chose Israel above all peoples?
When have you felt called to 'love the foreigner' as mentioned in v19?

Go deeper

Passages that echo Deuteronomy 10: Micah 6, Deuteronomy 6, Matthew 22.

Before next time: read Deuteronomy 11.