Exodus 34:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Object. God saith, I will write, Exodus 34:1. Answ.

1. Moses was to write the ritual precepts mentioned here above, God wrote the moral law.

2. Moses wrote what he wrote in a book; see Exodus 24:7; but what was written upon the tables of stone was written by God himself, not by Moses, who had no graving instruments with him in the mount, and could not without them write upon the stone.

Exodus 34:27

27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.