341 Now the Lord said to Moses , "Cut out for yourself two stone tablets like the former ones , and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered . 2 "So be ready by morning , and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai , and present yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain . 3 " No man is to come up with you, nor let any man be seen anywhere on the mountain ; even the flocks and the herds may not graze in front of that mountain ." 4 So he cut out two stone tablets like the former ones , and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai , as the Lord had commanded him, and he took two stone tablets in his hand .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 34:1-4
Commentary on Exodus 34:1-4
(Read Exodus 34:1-4)
When God made man in his own image, the moral law was written in his heart, by the finger of God, without outward means. But since the covenant then made with man was broken, the Lord has used the ministry of men, both in writing the law in the Scriptures, and in writing it in the heart. When God was reconciled to the Israelites, he ordered the tables to be renewed, and wrote his law in them. Even under the gospel of peace by Christ, the moral law continues to bind believers. Though Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, yet not from the commands of it. The first and the best evidence of the pardon of sin, and peace with God, is the writing the law in the heart.