-- he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments --- Deuteronomy 4:13
-- he wrote them upon two tables of stone --- Deuteronomy 4:13
-- I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you --- Deuteronomy 9:9
-- I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah --- Jeremiah 31:31
-- I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people --- Jeremiah 31:33
-- you are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart --- 2 Corinthians 3:3
-- if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second --- Hebrews 8:7
-- the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah --- Hebrews 8:8
-- this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people --- Hebrews 8:10
-- A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away --- Hebrews 8:13
-- the time of reformation --- Hebrews 9:10
-- I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second --- Hebrews 10:9
-- This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them --- Hebrews 10:16
-- Jesus the mediator of the new covenant --- Hebrews 12:24

Exodus 34:27-28 KJV
[27] And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. [28] And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Exodus 40:20 KJV
[20] And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:

Deuteronomy 4:13 KJV
[13] And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

Deuteronomy 5:22 KJV
[22] These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.

Deuteronomy 9:9 KJV
[9] When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

Deuteronomy 10:2 KJV
[2] And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.

Jeremiah 31:31 KJV
[31] Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

Jeremiah 31:33 KJV
[33] But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

John 19:30 KJV
[30] When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Romans 1:20 KJV
[20] For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Romans 2:15 KJV
[15] Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

2 Corinthians 3:3 KJV
[3] Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

Hebrews 8:7 KJV
[7] For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

Hebrews 8:8 KJV
[8] For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

Hebrews 8:10 KJV
[10] For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

Hebrews 8:13 KJV
[13] In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

Hebrews 9:10 KJV
[10] Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

Hebrews 10:9 KJV
[9] Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

Hebrews 10:16 KJV
[16] This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

Hebrews 10:26-27 KJV
[26] For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, [27] But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

Hebrews 12:24 KJV
[24] And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

God desires a people for himself.

Leviticus 26:9 KJV
[9] For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

Leviticus 26:12 KJV
[12] And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.


God had a covenant with natural Israel, the Ten Commandments that were written on stone tables and kept in the ark of the covenant.

Exodus 34:27-28 KJV
[27] And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. [28] And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he (God) wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.


The same Ten Commandments written by God in stone tables and kept in the ark of the covenant are the same Ten Commandments written by God in the fleshy tables of the heart.

1 Kings 8:9 KJV
[9] There was nothing in the ark save 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.

Jeremiah 31:33 KJV
[33] But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel (natural / spiritual); After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.