Exodus 32:16 meaning and explanation

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

Exodus 32:16, Berean Standard Bible

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Moses is coming down Mount Sinai carrying the two stone tablets of the Testimony, while the camp below has already made the golden calf. Verse 16 pauses the action to stress the tablets' origin: they are God's own work, and the writing on them is God's own writing, engraved on the stone.

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