Exodus 24:12
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What does Exodus 24:12 mean?
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 mount,
only up some part of it with the elders, though at some distance
from the people: but now he is bid to come up higher:
and be there;
continue there, as he did six days after this:
and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and
commandments which
I have written;
that is, the law of the ten commandments, which were written on
tables of stone by the Lord himself; he had already spoken them
in the hearing of the people, but now he had wrote them, and that
in tables of stone; partly for the duration of them, and partly
to represent the hardness of the hearts of the Israelites, the
stubbornness of their wills to comply with his law, their
contumacy and obstinate persistence in disobedience to it:
that thou mayest teach them;
these being in hand and sight, would have an opportunity of
explaining them to them and inculcating them on their minds, and
pressing them to yield an obedience to them.
