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Exodus 32:16

14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: 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.

17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.

18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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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.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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  • Exodus 31:18

    And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

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  • Hebrews 8:10

    For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

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  • 2 Corinthians 3:3

    Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

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  • Deuteronomy 10:1

    At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.

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  • Deuteronomy 9:9–11

    When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

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  • Exodus 34:1

    And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.

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  • Deuteronomy 9:15

    So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

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  • Exodus 34:4

    And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

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