 And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. Now Moses said in Deuteronomy 4 and verse 13, And he declared to you his covenant which he commanded you to perform, that is the Ten Commandments, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone. Again in Deuteronomy 9 and 11, Moses said, And at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant."