Exodus 32:19

32:19 When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry. He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain.

Exodus 34:28

34:28 So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.


tn Heb “and the anger of Moses burned hot.”

sn See N. M. Waldham, “The Breaking of the Tablets,” Judaism 27 (1978): 442-47.

tn These too are adverbial in relation to the main clause, telling how long Moses was with Yahweh on the mountain.

tn Heb “the ten words,” though “commandments” is traditional.