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Exodus 32

Ex. 32:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the tables
luwach (Hebrew #3871)
from a primitive root; probably meaning to glisten; a tablet (as polished), of stone, wood or metal
KJV usage: board, plate, table.
Pronounce: loo'-akh
Origin: or luach {loo'-akh}
were the work
ma`aseh (Hebrew #4639)
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV usage: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
Pronounce: mah-as-eh'
Origin: from 6213
of God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
, and the writing
miktab (Hebrew #4385)
a thing written, the characters, or a document (letter, copy, edict, poem)
KJV usage: writing.
Pronounce: mik-tawb'
Origin: from 3789
wasr the writing
miktab (Hebrew #4385)
a thing written, the characters, or a document (letter, copy, edict, poem)
KJV usage: writing.
Pronounce: mik-tawb'
Origin: from 3789
of God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
, graven
charath (Hebrew #2801)
to engrave
KJV usage: graven.
Pronounce: khaw-rath'
Origin: a primitive root
upon the tables
luwach (Hebrew #3871)
from a primitive root; probably meaning to glisten; a tablet (as polished), of stone, wood or metal
KJV usage: board, plate, table.
Pronounce: loo'-akh
Origin: or luach {loo'-akh}
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Ex. 31:18• 18And 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. (Ex. 31:18)
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Deut. 9:10• 10And 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. (Deut. 9:10)
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Heb. 8:10• 10For 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: (Heb. 8:10)

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Cross References

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Ex. 31:18• 18And 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. (Ex. 31:18)
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Ex. 34:1,4• 1And 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.
 4And 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. (Ex. 34:1,4)
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Deut. 9:9‑11,15• 9When 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:
 10And 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.
 11And 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.
 15So 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. 9:9‑11,15)
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Deut. 10:1• 1At 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. (Deut. 10:1)
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2 Cor. 3:3,7• 3Forasmuch 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.
 7But 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: (2 Cor. 3:3,7)
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Heb. 8:10• 10For 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: (Heb. 8:10)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the tables were God’s work, and the writing was God’s writing, engraven on the tables.