Deuteronomy 10:3

So I made an ark of acacia wood Not now in JE, see above. P, Exodus 25:10; Exodus 37:1, Beṣal'el made the ark of acacia wood.

acacia wood planks of shiṭṭim, the plur. of the tree shiṭṭah= shinṭah, Ar. -sant," a name given to several species of the thorny acacia; in Egypt to -A. (mimosa) Nilotica" (Lane, Ar. Eng. Lex.); and by the Arabs of the Desert of the wanderings of Israel to the -A. tortilis" and -A. laeta" (Hart, Fauna and Flora of Sinai, Petra and W. Araba, 52). More probably the former, an upright tree, 10 or 15 feet high, with a thick trunk and occasionally very numerous (e.g. a grove of acacias, chiefly -tortilis," ten miles long in the Arabah, id.31, cp. 8, 12, 92, and found on W. el Ithm, by which Israel probably passed to the Edomite plateau); the -A. laeta" is a tropical tree found only in the Ghor, and there seldom. Both Tristram (Nat. Hist. of the Bible, 298 f.) and Post (Flora, 298 f. and art. -Shittah" in Hastings" D.B.) identify the Shittah tree with the Seyyâl acacia, but this is never called -Sunṭ" by the Beduin to-day, and indeed is distinguished by them from -Sunṭ" (Hart, op. cit.52). Doughty mentions an acacia, called by the modern inhabitants of the Arabian peninsula -ṭolh," the only acacia wood which is not brittle, and is used by the Solubba, or tribe of smiths and carpenters, for saddle-trees and frames and vessels for milk, and also on the Arabian coast for ship-building (Arabia Deserta, i. 280, ii. 91, 678).

and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first So Exodus 34:4 a, JE.

and went up into the mount, with the two tables in mine hand So substantially Exodus 34:4 b, J.