Exodus 32:15 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 32:15

Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, with the two tables of the testimony in his hand; tables that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.

KJV

And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The tables were written on both their sides - If we take this literally, it was certainly a very unusual thing; for in ancient times the two sides of the same substance were never written over. However, some rabbins suppose that by the writing on both sides is meant the letters were cut through the tables, so that they might be read on both sides, though on one side they would appear reversed.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Moses turned, and went down from the mount--The plain, Er-Raheh, is not visible from the top of Jebel Musa, nor can the mount be descended on the side towards that valley; hence Moses and his companion, who on duty had patiently waited his return in the hollow of the mountain's brow, heard the shouting some time before they actually saw the camp.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּ֜פֶן	vai.Yi.fen	and he turned	H6437 →
וַיֵּ֤רֶד	vai.Ye.red	and he went down	H3381 →
מֹשֶׁה֙	mo.Sheh	Moses	H4872 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4480 →
הָהָ֔ר	ha.Har	the mountain	H2022 →
וּשְׁנֵ֛י	u.she.Nei	and [the] two	H8147 →
לֻחֹ֥ת	lu.Chot	[the] tablets of	H3871 →
הָעֵדֻ֖ת	ha.'e.Dut	the testimony	H5715 →
בְּיָד֑וֹ	be.ya.Do	[were] in hand his	H3027 →
לֻחֹ֗ת	lu.Chot	tablets	H3871 →
כְּתֻבִים֙	ke.tu.Vim	written	H3789 →
מִשְּׁנֵ֣י	mi.she.Nei	from [the] two	H8147 →
עֶבְרֵיהֶ֔ם	'ev.rei.Hem	sides their	H5676 →
מִזֶּ֥ה	mi.Zeh	from this	H2088 →
וּמִזֶּ֖ה	u.mi.Zeh	and from this	H2088 →
הֵ֥ם	hem	they	H1992 →
כְּתֻבִֽים׃	ke.tu.Vim	[were] written	H3789 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 16:34
And Aaron placed it in front of the Testimony, to be preserved just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
leads to
- Exodus 25:21
  Set the mercy seat atop the ark, and put the Testimony that I will give you into the ark.
- Exodus 25:16
  And place inside the ark the Testimony, which I will give you.
- Exodus 27:21
  In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to…
Through
Exodus 24:18
Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 9:9
  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.…
- Deuteronomy 10:10
  I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.
Through
Deuteronomy 5:22
The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them…
leads to
- 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…
Through
Deuteronomy 9:15
So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.
leads to
- Exodus 19:18
  Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.