The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
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The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
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And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
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And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Cross-references (9)
Passages linked to Exodus 32:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 31:18 When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.
- Hebrews 8:10 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- Exodus 34:1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
- Exodus 34:4 He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; then Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.
- Deuteronomy 9:9-11 When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly. It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant.
- Deuteronomy 9:15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
- Deuteronomy 10:1 At that time Yahweh said to me, “Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
- 2 Corinthians 3:3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
- 2 Corinthians 3:7 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain All these repetitions show how excellent a thing they…
All these repetitions show how excellent a thing they defrauded themselves of by their idolatry.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 32:16 And the tables [were] the work of…
Exo 32:16 And the tables [were] the work of God, and the writing [was] the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Ver. 16. The work of God.] The greater was the people’s loss, brought upon them by their sin.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And when Joshua heard the noise of the people,…
And when Joshua heard the noise of the people, as they shouted,.... Dancing about the calf: when Moses went up into the mount, Joshua went with him, and tarried in a lower part of the mount all the forty days until he returned, see Exo 24:13 though not so low as the bottom of the mount where the people were, nor so near it as to know what they did there, for of their affairs he seems to be entirely ignorant; nor so high as where Moses was, or, however, not in the cloud where he conversed with God, for of what passed between them he had no knowledge, until declared by Moses:
he said unto Moses, there is a noise of war in the camp; such a noise as soldiers make in an onset for battle; he supposed that some enemy was come upon and had attacked the people, and that this noise was the noise of the enemy, or of the Israelites, or both, just beginning the battle; or on the finishing of it on the account of victory on one side or the other; and as he was the general of the army, it must give him a concern that he should be absent at such a time.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The writing of God - Very probably the first…
The writing of God - Very probably the first writing in the world.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 16. The tables were the work of God]…
Verse 16. The tables were the work of God] Because such a law could proceed from none but himself; God alone is the fountain and author of LAW, of what is right, just, holy, and good. See the meaning of the word LAW, Ex 12:49. See Clarke on Ex 12:49.
The writing was the writing of God] For as he is the sole author of law and justice, so he alone can write them on the heart of man. This is agreeable to the spirit of the new covenant which God had promised to make with men in the latter days: I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel - I will PUT MY LAWS IN THEIR MINDS, AND WRITE THEM IN THEIR HEARTS, Jer 31:33; Heb 8:10; 2Co 3:3. That the writing of these tables was the writing of God, see proved at the conclusion of the last chapter.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16. Work of God — They were miracles in…
16. Work of God — They were miracles in stone, and so monumental witnesses of the supernatural origin of the commandments. See on Exo_31:18.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. the work of God, &c.] See Exo_24:12, Exo_31:18…
16. the work of God, &c.] See Exo_24:12, Exo_31:18 b.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) The tables were the work of God.—Rosenmüller supposes…
(16) The tables were the work of God.—Rosenmüller supposes this to mean merely that the size and shape of the stones was prescribed to Moses by God; but the natural meaning of the words is that God Himself fashioned them. This was not the case with the second tables (Exo_34:1; Exo_34:4).
The writing was the writing of God.—See Note 3 on Exo_31:18.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The tables were the work of God. Shaped, i.e.…
The tables were the work of God. Shaped, i.e. , by the same power by which the commandments were inscribed upon them; not, necessarily, of matter newly created for the purpose.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain (See Scofield "Exo 20:4").
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(See Scofield "Exo 20:4").
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 32:16 These tablets were God’s work: The covenant was…
32:16 These tablets were God’s work: The covenant was not merely a human agreement.
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