And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee 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
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses,.... Who very probably met him at the bottom of the mount; these Israelites with Aaron were the princes, as Aben Ezra seems rightly to interpret it, and as appears from the following verse; for Moses could not well be seen by the whole body of the people at once, upon his descent from the...
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).