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Exodus 32:16

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

KJV

et factas opere Dei : scriptura quoque Dei erat sculpta in tabulis.

Vulgate

καὶ αἱ πλάκες ἔργον θεοῦ ἦσαν, καὶ ἡ γραφὴ γραφὴ θεοῦ κεκολαμμένη ἐν ταῖς πλαξίν.

LXX

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

ASV

וְ/הַ֨/לֻּחֹ֔ת מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים הֵ֑מָּה וְ/הַ/מִּכְתָּ֗ב מִכְתַּ֤ב אֱלֹהִים֙ ה֔וּא חָר֖וּת עַל הַ/לֻּחֹֽת

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

ה֖וּא
hv'
pronoun · 1878×
הֵ֖מָּה
hmh
pronoun · 560×
חָר֖וּת
chrvt
verb · 1×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
לֻּחֹ֔ת
lcht
noun · 43×
מִכְתָּ֖ב
mktb
noun · 9×
מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה
m'shh
noun · 234×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2577From this intimacy with the faithful God, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love,23 Moses drew strength and determination for his intercession. He does not pray for himself but for the people whom God made his own. Moses already intercedes for them during the battle with the Amalekites and prays to obtain healing for Miriam.24 But it is chiefly after their apostasy that …

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 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 h
  • Deut 9:9 — 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
  • Deut 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.
  • Deut 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.
  • Exod 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.
  • Exod 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.
  • Exod 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.
  • Exod 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.
  • Exod 34:28 — And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
  • Heb 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, an