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Exodus 32:16

14 So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

15 Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.

The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

17 When Joshua heard the sound of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “The sound of war is in the camp.”

18 But Moses replied: “It is neither the cry of victory nor the cry of defeat; I hear the sound of singing!”

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BSB
The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
KJV
And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
WEB
The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
ASV
And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
DARBY
And the tables [were] God's work, and the writing was God's writing, engraven on the tables.
BLB
And the tablets, they [were] the work of God; and the writing, it [was] the writing of God engraved on the tablets.
ÅB
Og tavlene var Guds arbeid, og skriften var Guds skrift, som var inngravd på tavlene.
OTB
Tavlene var laget av Gud; skriften var Guds egen skrift, inngravert på tavlene.
B1930
Og tavlene var Guds arbeid, og skriften var Guds skrift, som var inngravd på tavlene.

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  • Exodus 31:18

    When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

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  • Hebrews 8:10

    For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

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  • 2 Corinthians 3:3

    It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

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  • Deuteronomy 10:1

    At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

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  • Deuteronomy 9:9–11

    When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

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  • Exodus 34:1

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

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  • Deuteronomy 9:15

    So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.

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  • Exodus 34:4

    So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him.

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