Many Jews understand the “tables of stone” to denote the Ten Commandments; “a law,” the law written in the Pentateuch; and the “commandments” (or “…

THE SECOND ASCENT OF MOSES INTO MOUNT SINAI.

The great work still remained to be done. A series of laws had been laid down …

And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me. Moses himself is now taken up higher; because it was sufficient for the elders to be admitted t…

And the Lord said unto Moses, come up to me into the mount ,
&c.] For as yet Moses was not got up to the top of the …

A cloud covered the mount six days; a token of God's special presence there. Moses was sure that he who called him up would protect him. Even those…