출애굽기 Chapter 34

Translation: ESV

1

The LORD said to Moses, 'Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.'

Key Message

Despite human failure, God renews the covenant, and God's word remains forever unchanged.

▸The renewal of the broken tablets signifies the renewal of the covenant.

The renewal of the broken tablets signifies the renewal of the covenant. It was Moses who broke the first tablets (32:19), but now Moses must prepare the tablets 'like the first.' That God will engrave the words again shows that God's word continues despite human failure.

Related Verses

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end.
6

The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, 'The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.'

Key Message

The essence of God is mercy, grace, patience, steadfast love, and faithfulness—this is the core of knowing God.

▸This is the most complete revelation of God's character in all the Old Testament.

7

Keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.

Key Message

God's love is far greater and more expansive than his judgment, and he embraces both forgiveness and justice.

▸The contrast between steadfast love extending to thousands and punishment to three or four generations shows that God's mercy is far greater and more enduring than his judgment.

28

So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

Key Message

One who receives God's word gives complete devotion and concentration, and God's presence meets the needs of the body.

▸Being with God for forty days and forty nights without food or water is a supernatural experience—possible only by God's direct power.

29

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.

Key Message

True encounter with God transforms us, and that transformation is most authentic when we ourselves are unaware of it.

▸The encounter with God brings transformation.