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Exodus 34:27

in Exodus 34

The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

KJV

And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

This verse in Exodus 34

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Write thou these words - Either a transcript of the whole law now delivered, or the words included from Exo 34:11 to Exo 34:26. God certainly wrote the ten words on both sets of tables. Moses either wrote a transcript of these and the accompanying precepts for the use of the people, or he wrote the precepts themselves in addition to the ten commandments which were written by the finger of God. See Clarke on Exo 34:1 (note).

This site's exposition

Write down these words

on Exodus 34:27-28

Verse 28 says He wrote on the tablets, and readers have long divided over the subject. Verse 1 has God saying I will write on them and Deuteronomy 10:4 agrees, while the nearest noun in verse 28 is Moses.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

We can never be enough thankful to God for the written word. He is told that according to the tenour of these words God would make a covenant with Moses and Israel; not with Israel immediately, but with them in Moses a mediator. Thus the covenant of grace is made with believers through Christ, who is given for a covenant to the people, Isa. xlix.
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The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּ֤אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • יְהוָה֙Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֔הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • כְּתָב־write

    ketov-H3789 →224 times

  • לְךָ֖for <the> yourself

    lekha

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַדְּבָרִ֣יםthe words

    hadevarimH1697 →1440 times

  • הָאֵ֑לֶּה<the> these

    haelehH428 →746 times

  • כִּ֞יthat

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • פִּ֣י׀[the] mouth of

    piH6310 →498 times

  • הַדְּבָרִ֣יםthe words

    hadevarimH1697 →1440 times

  • הָאֵ֗לֶּה<the> these

    haelehH428 →746 times

  • כָּרַ֧תִּיI have made

    karatiH3772 →288 times

  • אִתְּךָ֛with you

    ʾitekhaH854 →929 times

  • בְּרִ֖יתa covenant

    beritH1285 →284 times

  • וְאֶת־and with

    veetH854 →929 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 4:13

    He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 34:28

      So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

    • Exodus 31:18

      When 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.

    • Exodus 24:12

      Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written…

    • Deuteronomy 9:9–11

      When 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.…

    • Exodus 19:5

      Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

  • Through

    Exodus 24:7

    Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 31:11–13

      when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel.

    • Hebrews 9:18–23

      That is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.

  • Through

    Exodus 17:14

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 30:17

      And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.