Exodus 32:19
saw <07200> [he saw.]
4-6 De 9:16,17 [All]
dancing <04246> [the dancing.]
angry <0639> [anger.]
broke ....... bottom <07665 08478> [brake them.]
Deuteronomy 9:15-17
turned <06437> [I turned.]
mountain ... it <02022> [the mount.]
looked <07200> [I looked.]
threw <07993 05921> [cast them.]
Moses might have done this through distress and anguish of spirit, on beholding their abominable idolatry and dissolute conduct; or probably he did it emblematically, and perhaps by the direction of God; intimating thereby, that as by this act of his the tables were broken in pieces, on which the Law of God was written, so they, by their present conduct, had made a breach in the covenant, and broken the laws of their Maker and Sovereign.
