Exodus 32:16 The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

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

New American Standard Bible
The tablets were God's work, and the writing was God's writing engraved on the tablets.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was God's writing, engraved on the tablets.

International Standard Version
The tablets were the work of God and the writing was God's writing, inscribed 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And made by the work of God: the writing also of God was graven in the tables.

Darby Bible 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.

Cross References

Exodus 31:18
And he gave to Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him on mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

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 32:17
And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.

Exodus 34:1
And the LORD said to Moses, Hew you two tables of stone like to the first: and I will write on these tables the words that were in the first tables, which you brake.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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.