Exodus 31:18

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּתֵּ֣ן אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֗ה כְּכַלֹּתוֹ֙ לְדַבֵּ֤ר אִתּוֹ֙ בְּהַ֣ר סִינַ֔י שְׁנֵ֖י לֻחֹ֣ת הָעֵדֻ֑ת לֻחֹ֣ת אֶ֔בֶן כְּתֻבִ֖ים בְּאֶצְבַּ֥ע אֱלֹהִֽים׃

Transliteration

And wə- nātan unto-Mōšê as-kālâ-his to-dābar with-him in-har Sînay two lûḥōt the-ʿēdût lûḥōt ʾeben kātab by-ʾeṣbaʿ ʾĕlōhîm

Grammar Details

*nātan*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular with sequential *wə* - and he gave
*Mōšê*: proper noun with directional preposition *ʾel* - unto Moses
*kālâ*: piel infinitive construct with preposition *kə* and 3rd masculine singular suffix - when he finished
*dābar*: piel infinitive construct with preposition *lə* - to speak
*har*: noun, masculine singular construct with preposition *bə* - in mountain of
*Sînay*: proper noun - Sinai
*lûḥōt*: noun, masculine plural construct - tablets of
*ʿēdût*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the testimony
*ʾeben*: noun, feminine singular - stone
*kātab*: qal passive participle, masculine plural - written
*ʾeṣbaʿ*: noun, feminine singular construct with preposition *bə* - with finger of
*ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine plural - God

Word Meanings

*nātan*: gave/delivered/provided
*kālâ*: finished/completed/ended
*dābar*: speak/talk/commune
*lûḥōt*: tablets/tables/slabs
*ʿēdût*: testimony/witness/evidence
*kātab*: written/inscribed/engraved
*ʾeṣbaʿ*: finger/digit
*ʾĕlōhîm*: God/divine being

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Referenced Verses

Exod 24:12 : 12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Exod 32:15-16 : 15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. 16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Deut 4:13 : 13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
Deut 5:22 : 22 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
2 Cor 3:3 : 3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Exod 8:19 : 19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
Exod 34:28-29 : 28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. 29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
2 Cor 3:7-8 : 7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
Deut 9:9-9 : 9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: 10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
Jer 31:33 : 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Matt 12:28 : 28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
Luke 11:20 : 20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
Exod 34:1-4 : 1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. 2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. 3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount. 4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
Exod 24:18 : 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

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Deut 9:9-11
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9When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
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Exod 25:22
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