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Barnes' Notes on Exodus 24:12

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Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · 19th-century historical commentary
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Many Jews understand the “tables of stone” to denote the Ten Commandments; “a law,” the law written in the Pentateuch; and the “commandments” (or “the commandment”), the oral or traditional law which was in after ages put into writing in the Mishna and the Gemara. But it is more probable that the Ten Commandments alone are spoken of, and that the meaning is, “the tables of stone with the law, even the commandment.” return to 'Top of Page'
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