Elders] Elsewhere the elders are addressed along with the people. Here they are associated with Moses in exhorting the people to obedience.
2, 3. The plaster was intended to make a smooth surface, on which the inscription may have been painted in accordance with the Egyptian custom. Or the writing may have been impressed on the clay when it was soft and the clay afterwards dried or baked in the sun, like the tablets and cylinders of Babylonia. On the fulfilment of the injunction given here see Joshua 8:30-35 and on Deuteronomy 11:29; Deuteronomy 11:30.