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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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
LORD	יְהוָה֙ Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
said	וַיֹּ֤אמֶר vai.Yo.mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Moses	מֹשֶׁ֔ה mo.Sheh	H4872	Mosheh · proper noun, a man's name
Hew	פְּסָל pe.sol-	H6458	to carve · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
two	שְׁנֵֽי she.nei-	H8147	two · cardinal number, both genders dual construct
tables	לֻחֹ֥ת lu.Chot	H3871	probably meaning to glisten · noun, common feminine plural construct
stone	אֲבָנִ֖ים 'a.va.Nim	H68	a stone · noun, common feminine plural absolute
first	כָּרִאשֹׁנִ֑ים ka.ri.sho.Nim	H7223	first · preposition with the article + ordinal number, masculine plural absolute
write	וְכָתַבְתִּי֙ ve.kha.tav.Ti	H3789	to grave · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 1st person common singular
tables	הַלֻּחֹ֔ת ha.lu.Chot	H3871	probably meaning to glisten · definite article + noun, common feminine plural absolute
words	הַדְּבָרִ֔ים ha.de.va.Rim	H1697	a word · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
first	הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים ha.ri.sho.Nim	H7223	first · definite article + ordinal number, masculine plural absolute
tables	הַלֻּחֹ֥ת ha.lu.Chot	H3871	probably meaning to glisten · definite article + noun, common feminine plural absolute
brakest	שִׁבַּֽרְתָּ shi.Bar.ta	H7665	to burst (literally or figuratively) · verb, piel perfect, 2nd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Exodus 32:19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast t…
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 wi…
Deuteronomy 10:1-4 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 a…
Psalms 119:89 For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
Exodus 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 word…
Exodus 32:16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Deuteronomy 9:15-17 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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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 34:1-4

The treaty that was on foot between God and Israel being broken off abruptly, by their worshipping the golden calf, when peace was made all must be begun anew, not where they left off, but from the beginning. Thus backsliders must repent, and do their first works, Rev 2:5. I. Moses must prepare for the renewing of the tables, Exo 34:1. Before, God himself provided the tables, and wrote on them; now, Moses mus hew out the tables, and God would only write upon them. Thus, in the first writing of the law upon the heart of man in innocency, both the tables and the writing were the work of God; but when those were broken and defaced by sin, and the divine law was to be preserved in the scriptures…

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Adam Clarke on Exodus 34:1

Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first - In Exo 32:16 we are told that the two first tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God; but here Moses is commanded to provide tables of his own workmanship, and God promises to write on them the words which were on the first. That God wrote the first tables himself, see proved by different passages of Scripture at the end of Exodus 32 (Exo 32:35 (note)). But here, in Exo 34:27, it seems as if Moses was commanded to write these words, and in Exo 34:28 it is said, And he wrote upon the tables; but in Deu 10:1-4 it is expressly said that God wrote the second tables as well as the first. In order to reconcile these acco…

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John Gill on Exodus 34:1

And the Lord said unto Moses,.... Out of the cloudy pillar, at the door of the tabernacle, where he had been conversing with him in the most friendly manner, as related in the preceding chapter: hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first; of the same form, and of the same dimensions, and it may be of the same sort of stone, which perhaps was marble, there being great plenty of that kind on Mount Sinai. Now Moses being ordered to hew these tables, whereas the former were the work of God himself, as well as the writing, shows that the law was to be the ministration of Moses, and be ordained in the hand of him as a mediator, who had been praying and interceding for the people; and as a t…

Dictionary and topics

Commandments, The Ten · Written by God — Written by God
Desert, Journey Of Israel Through The · The tables of testimony renewed — The tables of testimony renewed
Stones · Commandments engraved upon — Commandments engraved upon
Table · .A second set engrave — .A second set engrave

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Exodus 34:1

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 34:1-4

Adam Clarke on Exodus 34:1

John Gill on Exodus 34:1

Dictionary and topics

Exodus 34:1

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 34:1-4

Adam Clarke on Exodus 34:1

John Gill on Exodus 34:1

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Exodus 34:1-10

Keil & Delitzsch on Exodus 34:1-8

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Exodus 34:1-35

Rashi on Exodus 34:1