...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...

...and forty nights. And he gave unto Moses, two 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. And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day...

...written on both their sides ; on the one side and on the other were they written. Jonah 3. 10. 16 A nd the' * tables were' the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. 17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the peosaid, Loun, why doth thy pie as...

...tables were written upon 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."f This was intended to prevent the possibility of any thing being added to...

...tables were written on both their sides : on the one side and on the other were they written. 16 And ched him, and said, Arise and eat ; because the journey is too great for graven upon the tables. 17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto...

...to an opinion recorded in die Talmud, die tablets given to Moses by God announce freedom: "And die tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon die tables" (Exodus 32:16). "Do not read Harta [graven] but Herat [freedom], since no one...

...of the fire on the day of the assembly" (Deut 9:10).4' Elsewhere we find the same idea: "The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tablets" (Exod 32:16). Tradition has not refrained from being specific and giving...

...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...

...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...

...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...