Passages in Exodus and Deuteronomy Ten Commandments





moses breaking tablets of law (1659) rembrandt. (gemäldegalerie, berlin)


the mount covered cloud 6 days, , on seventh day moses went midst of cloud , in mount forty days , forty nights. , moses said, lord delivered unto me 2 tablets of stone written finger of god; , on them written according words, lord spake in mount out of midst of fire in day of assembly. before full forty days expired, children of israel collectively decided had happened moses, , compelled aaron fashion golden calf, , built altar before , people worshipped calf.


after full forty days, moses , joshua came down mountain tablets of stone: , came pass, came nigh unto camp, saw calf, , dancing: , moses anger waxed hot, , cast tablets out of hands, , brake them beneath mount. after events in chapters 32 , 33, lord told moses, hew thee 2 tablets of stone unto first: , write upon these tablets words in first tablets, thou brakest. , wrote on tablets, according first writing, ten commandments, lord spake unto in mount out of midst of fire in day of assembly: , lord gave them unto me.


according jewish tradition, exodus 20:1–17 constitutes god s first recitation , inscription of ten commandments on 2 tablets, moses broke in anger rebellious nation, , later rewritten on replacement stones , placed in ark of covenant; , deuteronomy 5:4–20 consists of god s re-telling of ten commandments younger generation enter promised land. passages in exodus 20 , deuteronomy 5 contain more ten imperative statements, totalling 14 or 15 in all.








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