Exodus 32:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

The tables were the work of God. — Rosenmüller supposes this to mean merely that the size and shape of the stones was prescribed to Moses by God; but the natural meaning of the words is that God Himself fashioned them. This was not the case with the second tables (Exodus 34:1; Exodus 34:4).

The writing was the writing of God. — See Note 3 on Exodus 31:18.

Exodus 32:16

16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.