Exodus 32:16
And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Exodus 32:16 in other translations
| BSB | The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. |
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| WEB | The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. |
| ASV | And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. |
| YLT | and the tables are the work of God, and the writing is the writing of God, graven on the tables. |
| DARBY | And the tables wereGod's work, and the writing was God's writing, engraven on the tables. |
| BBE | The stones were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, cut on the stones. |
| Webster | And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. |
What does Exodus 32:16 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 32:15-18
15-18. Moses turned, and went down from the mount--The plain, Er-Raheh, is not visible from the top of Jebel Musa, nor can the mount be descended on the side towards that valley; hence Moses and his companion, who on duty had patiently waited his return in the hollow of the mountain's brow, heard the shouting some time before they actually saw the camp.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 32:15-20
What a change it is, to come down from the mount of communion with God, to converse with a wicked world. In God we see nothing but what is pure and pleasing; in the world nothing but what is sinful and provoking. That it might appear an idol is nothing in the world, Moses ground the calf to dust. Mixing this powder with their drink, signified that the backslider in heart should be filled with his own ways.
Exodus 32:16 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Exodus 32:16
- 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 with the finger of God.
- Hebrews 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, and they shall be to me a people:
- 2 Corinthians 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 heart.
- Deuteronomy 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.
- Deuteronomy 9:9-11
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 bread nor drink water: And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 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.
- Exodus 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.
- 2 Corinthians 3:7
But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
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Context
- Exodus 32:15
And 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.
- Exodus 32:16
And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
- Exodus 32:17
And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
Exodus 32:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y las tablas eran obra de Dios, y la escritura era escritura de Dios grabada sobre las tablas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et les tables étaient l’ouvrage de Dieu, et l’écriture était l’écriture de Dieu, gravée sur les tables. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und die Tafeln waren das Werk Gottes, und die Schrift war die Schrift Gottes, eingegraben in die Tafeln. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et factas opere Dei: scriptura quoque Dei erat sculpta in tabulis. |