Tablets of Stone
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According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tablets of the Law were the two stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments when Moses ascended Mount Sinai as written in the Book of Exodus.
Rectangular tablets passed down by the Hand of God in the 10th century Byzantine Leo Bible.
Round corners, 13th century, France
Round corners, c. 1390
Sharp corners by Andrea Mantegna, c. 1461
Golden calf
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According to the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran, the golden calf or, in the Quranic account, the calf was a cult image made by the Israelites when Moses went up to Mount Sinai. In Hebrew, the inciden
Tablets of Stone
…tablets, inscribed by the finger of God, (Exodus 31:18) were smashed by Moses when he was enraged by the sight of the Children of Israel worshiping a golden calf (Exodus 32:19), and the second were later chiseled out by Moses and rewritten by God (Exodus 34:1). According to traditional teachings of Judaism in…
Worshiping the golden calf, as in Exodus 32:1-35, illustration from a Bible card published in 1901 by the Providence Lithograph Company
Moses Indignant at the Golden Calf, painting by William Blake, 1799–1800
The Levites killed about 3,000 Israelites who worshipped the Golden Calf (1984 illustration by Jim Padgett).
Moses destroying the tablets (watercolor c. 1896–1902 by James Tissot)