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Yahweh said to Moses, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
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The 'Scar' of Forgiveness
Commentators widely agree that while the covenant was renewed, there was a consequence for Israel's sin. God made the first tablets Himself, but Moses had to hew the second pair. Scholars like Calvin call this a 'scar' or a humbling reminder that sin has a cost, even when forgiven. Grace was restored, but not without a mark of their failure.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Hew you - The former tables are called the work of God; compare (Exodus 32:16).
The words - See ([Referen…
19th Century
Anglican
Before the covenant could be formally reestablished, before Israel could be replaced in the position forfeited by the idolatry of the golden calf, …
16th Century
Protestant
And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone. Although the renewal of the broken covenant was ratified by this pledge or vis…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the Lord said unto Moses Out of the cloudy pillar, at the door of the tabernacle, where he had been conversing w…
When God made man in his own image, the moral law was written in his heart, by the finger of God, without outward means. But since the covenant the…
