Tablets of Stone
Two pieces of stone inscribed with Ten Commandments
Tablets of Stone
According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tablets of the Law (also Tablets of Stone, Stone Tablets, or Tablets of Testimony; Biblical Hebrew: לוּחֹת הַבְּרִית lūḥōṯ habbǝrīṯ "tablets of the covenant", לֻחֹת הָאֶבֶן luḥōṯ hāʾeḇen or לֻחֹת אֶבֶן luḥōṯ ʾeḇen or לֻחֹת אֲבָנִים luḥōṯ ʾăḇānīm "stone tablets", and לֻחֹת הָעֵדֻת luḥōṯ hāʿēḏuṯ "tablets of testimony") were the two stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments when Moses ascended Mount Sinai as written in the Book of Exodus. According to the biblical narrative, the first set of tablets, inscribed by the finger of God, (Exodus 31:18) were smashed by Moses when he was enraged by the sight of the Children of Israel worshiping a golden calf (Exodus 32:19), and the second were later chiseled out by Moses and rewritten by God (Exodus 34:1). According to traditional teachings of Judaism in the Talmud, the stones were made of blue sapphire as a symbolic reminder of the sky, the heavens, and ultimately of God's throne. Many Torah scholars, however...
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