And the LORD said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
The Israelites had just made a calf and called it a feast; now God prescribes His own feasts to guard them from that snare. Serious godliness is a continual feast, and joy in God always. Even in harvest's press, the Sabbath must not yield; the work will prosper better for honoring it than for abandoning it.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 34:18-27
Moses' shining face struck fear because it blazed with the glory of God's presence; and this teaches us that the law, though glorious, ministers condemnation and death, it discovers sin, fills the conscience with dread of God's wrath, and terrifies rather than saves.
AI summary
And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words--that is, the ceremonial and judicial injunctions comprehended above (Exo. 34:11-26); while the rewriting of the ten commandments on the newly prepared slabs was done by God Himself (compare Deu 10:1-4).