...tables upon which the ten commandments were written, and descended the mount, followed by Joshua. " And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables." " And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise...

...man was when the two tables of stone, written by the finger of God himself, were handed to Moses.* ' The tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables."1^ The contents of these tables we of course know, and we have it still in our power to ascertain...

...were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other wer-e they written. And the Q 2 tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God graven upon the tables. And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses there is a noise...

...himself the great object for which he once wrote these words on the top of Mount Sinai : — " For the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven on the tables." Such being the law and solemn determination of the Most High, you need not be surprised...

...writing: that of the Jewish Law directly inscribed onto stone by 'the finger of God' (Exodus, 31.18): The tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables (Exodus, 32.16, from The Bible, eds. Carroll and Prickett, OT p. 106). No image could convey more effectively...

...the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables" (Exodus 32:15,16). Nothing can be added to its contents, nor can anything be removed or erased from...

...Why stone? Why not olive tree bark, or better yet, gold or silver? Stone was of God's choosing. "And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God...""(Exodus 32:16). Stone signified permanence. Stone tablets were God's way of confirming that...

...understood as an allusion to the Mosaic tablets of the Torah on the basis of Exodus 32:16: "The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tablets (rtrforrhu nnn)."38 Lange understands the phrase pTin irnn as a reference...

...hands, tables that were written on both sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables . . . And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses' anger burned hot,...

...Mount Sinai, the two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God . . . And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables" (Exod. 31.18; 32.16). And it is well known that Jews accorded considerable veneration to the physical...