Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies. And it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So verse 12, then the Lord said to Moses, come up to me on the mountain and be there,

and I will give you tablets of stone and the law and commandments I wrote that you may teach them.

So, again, reiterated, there are these tablets related to the covenant that God himself wrote.

There's also the book of the covenant that Moses wrote, which includes the contents of those tablets, but also includes more.

And the Torah that we now have is going to come out of the more that Moses wrote. Right.

Does Moses already got the tablets?

Well, Moses had already heard the contents of the tablets.

Yeah. Not physically got the tablets. Yeah.

Not physically not.

Yes.

Yeah.

Right.

And so that you may teach them again, the idea there is not just again so that you can read them aloud.

Right.

Teaching them meant inculcating them right teaching the people how to practice them

which would involve adding more words right in terms of details and in terms of

different contexts what does that mean in this kind I'm married I'm unmarried I'm

this I'm that right what does it mean I'm married. I'm unmarried. I'm this. I'm that, right?

What does it mean?

I'm a traveling merchant.

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