15And 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.
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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.
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
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.
As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-20)Here is, I. The favour of God to Moses, in trusting him with the two tables of the testimony, which, though of common stone, were far more valuable than all the precious stones that adorned the breast-plate of Aaron. The topaz of Ethiopia could not equal them, Exod. 32:15 , 16 . God himself, without the ministry either of man or angel (for aught that appears), wrote the ten commandments on these t…
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