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And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments” (34:27-28). The controversial passage found in Exodus 34 states: “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘ Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.’ So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights he neither ate bread nor drank water. This passage teaches that Moses hewed the tablets out of rock, but that God was the One Who wrote on them. And He (God) wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the Lord had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly and the Lord gave them to me (Deuteronomy 10:1-4, emp. And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke and you shall put them in the ark.” So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. Verses 1-4 of that chapter say:Īt that time the Lord said to me (Moses), “Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an ark of wood. We readily admit that Deuteronomy 10 teaches that God was the One Who wrote on the second pair of tablets. A closer examination of these passages, however, reveals that they are not contradictory, but rather complimentary and consistent with each other. Based upon this “difference,” they allege that a blatant contradiction exists. Skeptics claim the Bible teaches in Exodus 34 that Moses wrote on this second pair of tablets, whereas in Deuteronomy 10 it says that God is the One Who wrote on these tablets. After Moses broke the first tablets of stone that the Lord gave him on Mount Sinai, God commanded him to cut out two tablets of stone (like the first ones) and present himself to Him at the top of Mount Sinai-again (Exodus 34:1-2).