Exodus 32:16

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“The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.”

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BSBPD

“The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and the tables are the work of God, and the writing is the writing of God, graven on the tables.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 32:16 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 31:18When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
  2. Exodus 34:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
  3. Exodus 34:4So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him.
  4. Deuteronomy 9:9When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
  5. Deuteronomy 9:15So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.
  6. Deuteronomy 10:1At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
  7. Job 19:24by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
  8. 2 Corinthians 3:3It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
  9. 2 Corinthians 3:7Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
  10. Hebrews 8:10For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

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