The Replacement Set

@Steven J

I'm not at all sure why these passages present you with such difficulty. The text is quite clear.

God engraves the Ten Commandments on two stone tablets. Twice. The second time is to create a REPLACEMENT set for the first set, which was broken. On the second set of stone tablets, God again engraves the SAME WORDS that were on the first set.

Exodus 34:1

The LORD said to Moses, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I [the LORD] will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Deuteronomy 10:1-2

At that time the LORD said to me, 'Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain ... And I [the LORD] will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke

The LORD writes on the tablets, not Moses. The LORD first speaks these words

Exodus 20:1

And God spoke all these words, (the ten commandments)

God then goes on to give Moses all sorts of commandments and regulations, and tells Moses to write them down.

Nowhere in the text does it say that God engraved all of those commandments and regulations in stone. And nowhere in the text does it say that Moses engraves anything in stone.

The text says that God engraves in stone, and Moses writes down.

Both times.

God engraves the Ten Commandments, and Moses writes down everything.

Exodus 24:4

And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD.

Exodus 32:15-16

Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both sides; on the front and on the back they were written. The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

Exodus 31:18

When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

You are not reading the text clearly. Granted, the translation from the ancient Hebrew to modern English does present some difficulty.

Review the text again, carefully, Steven. It clearly says who does the writing of which words.

Again, I'm not sure why these passages give you difficulty. ALL of these words that written down (by God and by Moses) were spoken by God.

God could have chosen to engrave ALL of the words on stone tablets. (All of those words would not have fit on two stone tablets, so Moses would have presumably needed to carry more than two), and probably needed to make several trips up and down the mountain to transport the all of the stone.

God could have chosen to let Moses write everything down, and not engraved anything on stone tablets at all.

Or God could have written everything down on papyrus scrolls himself, rather than have Moses do any writing.

In any case, ALL of the words were words SPOKEN by God, and ALL of the words that were engraved in stone and written down on scrolls were words from God.

What's not clear, Steven, is why it is so important to you to insist that God engraved something DIFFERENT on the REPLACEMENT set of stone tablets, when Exodus 34:1 clearly says that the words engraved by God were the same words engraved by God on the first set.