Exodus 34:1

EXODUS CHAPTER 34 God commands Moses to hew two tables of stone like the former, wherein he promises to write, Exodus 34:1. Moses goes with these tables up to the mount, Exodus 34:4. God descends in a cloud, Exodus 24:5. He proclaims his name, Exodus 34:6,7. Moses worships, Exodus 34:8,9. God making a covenant with the people, commands them not to make a covenant with their enemies, Exodus 34:10; bids them beware of molten gods, Exodus 34:13. The feast of unleavened bread, Exodus 34:18. To rest on the sabbath day, Exodus 34:21. Other laws, Exodus 34:22. Moses wrote these words, Exodus 34:27. The time of Moses's abode on the mount. Exodus 34:28. Moses's face shining, Exodus 34:29, is covered, Exodus 34:33. He acquaints the people with what the Lord told him, Exodus 34:31,32. The first tables were made immediately by God, who of his own mere grace and good pleasure, and without man's merit or contrivance, entered into covenant with Abraham and his seed. These tables must be made by Moses, partly in token of God's displeasure for their sin, and partly to signify, that though the covenant of grace was first made without man's care and counsel, yet it should not be renewed but by man's repentance. And as the tables of stone signified the hardness of their hearts, so the hewing of them by Moses might signify the circumcision and ploughing up of their hearts, that they might be fit for the receiving of God's mercies, and the performance of their duties. The words that were in the first tables; to show God's reception of Israel into his favour, and their former state, and that the law and covenant of God was neither abolished nor changed by their sin.