He was there with Yahweh 40 days and 40 nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.a
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In Hebrew, the “ten words.”
“ten commandments.” The Hebrew text is “the ten words,” using “words” like we do for a sentence or message (cp. Deut. 4:13; 10:4).
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