Exodus 24:12 - Exposition

Come up to me . Moses, apparently, had descended again into the plain, with Aaron and the seventy elders, after the festival was over. (See Exodus 24:14 , and compare Exodus 32:1 .) He is now commanded to reascend, and be there — i.e; "And continue there"—foreshadowing the length of the stay. Tables of stone, and a law, and commandments , etc. Literally, "Tables of stone, and the law and the commandments which I have written." The three expressions alike refer to the Decalogue, which alone God wrote . That thou mayest teach them . Rather," to teach them." God wrote the commandments on stone, in order to inculcate them with the greater force upon his people.