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Exodus 32:16

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

Geneva Bible 1599

And these Tables were the worke of God, and this writing was the writing of God grauen in the Tables.

Darby Translation

And the tables [were] God's work, and the writing was God's writing, engraven on the tables.

Young's Literal Translation

and the tables are the work of God, and the writing is the writing of God, graven on the tables.

Bible in Basic English

The stones were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, cut on the stones.

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Cross references

“And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.”

Exodus 31:18 Hebrews 8:10 Exodus 34:1 Exodus 34:4 Deuteronomy 9:9–11 Deuteronomy 9:15

Exodus 31:18 · BSB

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.

Hebrews 8:10 · BSB

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.

Exodus 34:1 · BSB

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.

Exodus 34:4 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 9:9–11 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 9:15 · BSB

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

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15Then 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.

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

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