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Originally Posted by Timmy
28 And he (Moses) was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he (Moses) did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he (the Lord?  ) wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Which is why 28 really, really seems to be saying Moses is the "he". What am I missing? |
Same thing I'm missing maybe ... a proper understanding of Hebrew.
From the New Bible Commentary:
34:1-35 The Covenant Renewed
This promised vision of the covenant God is the basis for the renewal of the covenant which has been broken by idolatry. The covenant is renewed through the repromulgation of the law of the covenant. It is again written by God but Moses is to prepare the tablets on this occasion. There is no contradiction between vv. 1, 27 and 28. The situation is that in v. 27 Moses is commanded to write the contents of the preceding verses, "these words" ; in v. 28 God is the subject of the last verb and not Moses. The contents of this chapter are an abbreviation of the 'book of the covenant', with additional features of promise and warning justified by Israel's apostasy and the Canaanite situation with which we will be confronted.
The New Bible Commentary, Eerdman's page 138.
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