Nehemiah 9:13

13 You came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke to them from heaven. You gave them impartial ordinances, reliable instructions, and good decrees and commandments.

Nehemiah 9:13 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 9:13

Thou camest down also upon Mount Sinai
By some visible tokens of his presence, as a cloud, fire, smoke which must be understood consistent with his omniscience, see ( Exodus 19:18 ) ,

and spakest with them from heaven;
the decalogue or ten commandments, ( Exodus 20:1-17 ) ,

and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and
commandments;
both judicial and ceremonial, which were of excellent use to them in their civil and ecclesiastical polity; these were not spoken to Israel, but given to Moses on the mount, to be delivered to them.

Nehemiah 9:13 In-Context

11 You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into churning waters.

12 You led them with a pillar of cloud by day, and with a pillar of fire by night, to illuminate the way they should go.

13 You came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke to them from heaven. You gave them impartial ordinances, reliable instructions, and good decrees and commandments.

14 You revealed Your holy Sabbath to them, and gave them commandments, statutes, and a law through Your servant Moses.

15 You provided bread from heaven for their hunger; You brought them water from the rock for their thirst. You told them to go in and possess the land You had sworn to give them.