Exodus 34:27

27 And the Lord said to Moses, Write these words for thyself, for on these words I have established a covenant with thee and with Israel.

Exodus 34:27 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 34:27

And the Lord said unto Moses
Being still with him on the mount:

write thou these words;
expressed in the preceding verses, from ( Exodus 34:11-27 ) , as he before had written in a book all those laws, contained in ( Exodus 21:1-23:33 ) called the book of the covenant, ( Exodus 24:4 Exodus 24:7 ) and which perhaps might be destroyed, as well as the two tables were broken; and therefore upon the renewal of the covenant here, there is a repetition made of the principal laws before given, which are ordered also to be written in a book, which may very well be called by the same name, since it follows:

for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with
thee and with Israel,
with Moses, as their representative and mediator, and with them represented by him: what is above related carries in it the form of a covenant between them, God having declared on his part what he would do for them, and what laws and rules he required to be observed on their part; which Moses assented to in their name, and was ordered to write them down, that he might repeat them to them.

Exodus 34:27 In-Context

25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifices with leaven, neither shall the sacrifices of the feast of the passover remain till the morning.

26 The first-fruits of thy land shalt thou put into the house of the Lord thy God: thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.

27 And the Lord said to Moses, Write these words for thyself, for on these words I have established a covenant with thee and with Israel.

28 And Moses was there before the Lord forty days, and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water; and he wrote upon the tables these words of the covenant, the ten sayings.

29 And when Moses went down from the mountain, the two tables in the hands of Moses, —as then he went down from the mountain, Moses knew not that the appearance of the skin of his face was glorified, when God spoke to him.