Exodus 31:18

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16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

17 It is ^aa sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for ^bin six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’ ”

18 And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses ^atwo tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

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Exodus 31:18

Two tables of testimony - See Exodus 25:16; Exodus 32:15.

The tables of stone which represented the covenant between Yahweh and His people, and which, when covered with the mercy-seat were to give the sanctuary its significance, are now delivered to Moses in accordance with the promise in Exodus 24:12.

The history of what relates to the construction of the sanctuary is here interrupted, and is taken up again in Exodus 35:1.

**Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Exodus 31:18:**

Exodus 20:1-17
Exodus 25:1-9
Exodus 27:1-8
Exodus 34:29
Exodus 35:1
Exodus 40:20
Psalms 122:4
Isaiah 30:8
Acts 7:44

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