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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Exodus 32:19

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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32:19 While the act of smashing the tablets might simply have been a reaction of fury, it might also have been Moses’ way of saying that the covenant with God was now irrevocably broken. God later reminded Moses rather pointedly that Moses was the one who had smashed the tablets (see 34:1).
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