Exodus 24:12

MOSES’S ASCENT INTO THE MOUNT, Exodus 24:12-18.

12. Tables of stone, and a law, and commandments This may be rendered, Tables of stone, even the law and the commandment, and would then most naturally denote the decalogue graven on tables of stone . Ewald understands the reference to be to the decalogue, and also to other laws and commandments which were to be given. The rabbinical interpretation is, that only the tables of stone refer to the decalogue, while the law here means the written law of Moses, and the commandments the oral law which was handed down by tradition, and afterward embodied in the Talmud. As Exodus 24:12-18 serve for an introduction to chapters 25-31, in which so many commandments are given touching the tabernacle and the priesthood, and as Exodus 32:15, shows that Moses returned with the two tables in his hand, we may best understand that these words refer to other commandments besides those of the decalogue . Moses was called up to receive not the tables only, but also other revelations.

Teach them All the laws, and the entire revelation, were to be taught to the people.