John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 32:15
And Moses turned, and went down from the mount ,.... He turned himself from God, with whom he had been conversing forty days; his back was to the ascent of the mount, and he turned himself in order to go down; or "he looked" F7 ויפן "et aspexit", Pagninus. , as a man considers what is to be done, as Aben Ezra observes, and he saw that he was obliged to go down in haste: and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand ; or hands, as in Exodus 32:19 for they were, perhaps,... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 32:15-20
Here is, I. The favour of God to Moses, in trusting him with the two tables of the testimony, which, though of common stone, were far more valuable than all the precious stones that adorned the breast-plate of Aaron. The topaz of Ethiopia could not equal them, Exod. 32:15, 16. God himself, without the ministry either of man or angel (for aught that appears), wrote the ten commandments on these tables, on both their sides, some on one table and some on the other, so that they were folded... read more