Exodus 32:16
16 The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
Other Translations of Exodus 32:16
King James Version
16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
English Standard Version
16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
The Message
16 God made the tablets and God wrote the tablets - engraved them.
New King James Version
16 Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tablets.
New Living Translation
16 These tablets were God's work; the words on them were written by God himself.
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 32:16
Commentary on Exodus 32:15-20
(Read Exodus 32:15-20)
What a change it is, to come down from the mount of communion with God, to converse with a wicked world. In God we see nothing but what is pure and pleasing; in the world nothing but what is sinful and provoking. That it might appear an idol is nothing in the world, Moses ground the calf to dust. Mixing this powder with their drink, signified that the backslider in heart should be filled with his own ways.