Exodus 34:27

These words, i.e. the commands of vv.11 26, are to be written down by Moses; for they constitute the conditions upon which Jehovah establishes His covenant (vv.10, 27) with Israel. -The verse is J's parallel to Exodus 24:3-8 in E" (Di.).

after the tenor of The expression used in Genesis 43:7.

28a. And he was there, &c. viz. after the ascent of the mount described in v.4, i.e. in the presentform of vv.1 4, Moses secondascent of it, but in their originalform, if the view stated on p. 364 be correct, the ascent mentioned in Exodus 24:1-2; Exodus 24:9-11, so that in this case the forty days of J here will be the same as the forty days of E in Exodus 24:18 b.

28b. And he wrote i.e., in the presentcontext of the words, Moses (see p. 364). Of course it must be admitted that v.28b may have once stood in a context in which the pronoun would refer naturally to Jehovah: this would be the case, for instance, if it once stood immediately after v.4, as Deuteronomy 10:4 would suggest (cf. p. 364).

the words of the covenant The -words" of v.27, i.e. the commands of vv.Exodus 11-26. It is difficult to think that this expression, at least as an original part of J, can have denoted the Decalogue of Exodus 20: for the Decalogue of Exodus 20 is not in any part of Ex. made the basis of a covenant: this is a representation characteristic of Dt. (Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 5:2-3 al.: see pp. 175, 193).

the ten commandments Heb. words: i.e., if the words are part of J, and in their original context, the -words," or commandments, of vv.11 26, which, though they are now more, may once have consisted only of ten (the -ritual Decalogue," p. 365). But it is probable that the words are a later addition, made, on the basis of Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 10:4, after the original wording of the chapter had been modified in vv.1, 4, so as to make it describe the re-writing of the -moral" Decalogue of Exodus 20 (p. 365); and in this case they will, as in Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 10:4 †, refer to that Decalogue. So Kittel, Bä., McNeile (p. xxxi), al.