Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. Moses descends with the tablets — the physical record of the covenant whose terms Israel has just violated. Every step down the mountain brings the written covenant closer to its violation. 2 Corinthians 3:7 describes the ministry engraved in letters on stone as glorious though fading — the stone tablets of Exodus 32 are the basis of Paul's contrast between external law and internal covenant writing. The glory of the stone law is real; what fades is the ministry form, not the law's content.

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