Exodus 34:27

27 ADONAI said to Moshe, "Write these words down, because they are the terms of the covenant I have made with you and with Isra'el."

Exodus 34:27 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 34:27

And the Lord said unto Moses
Being still with him on the mount:

write thou these words;
expressed in the preceding verses, from ( Exodus 34:11-27 ) , as he before had written in a book all those laws, contained in ( Exodus 21:1-23:33 ) called the book of the covenant, ( Exodus 24:4 Exodus 24:7 ) and which perhaps might be destroyed, as well as the two tables were broken; and therefore upon the renewal of the covenant here, there is a repetition made of the principal laws before given, which are ordered also to be written in a book, which may very well be called by the same name, since it follows:

for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with
thee and with Israel,
with Moses, as their representative and mediator, and with them represented by him: what is above related carries in it the form of a covenant between them, God having declared on his part what he would do for them, and what laws and rules he required to be observed on their part; which Moses assented to in their name, and was ordered to write them down, that he might repeat them to them.

Exodus 34:27 In-Context

25 You are not to offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, and the sacrifice of the feast of Pesach is not to be left until morning.

26 You are to bring the best firstfruits of your land into the house of ADONAI your God. "You are not to boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

27 ADONAI said to Moshe, "Write these words down, because they are the terms of the covenant I have made with you and with Isra'el."

28 Moshe was there with ADONAI forty days and forty nights, during which time he neither ate food nor drank water. [ADONAI] wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Words.

29 When Moshe came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, he didn't realize that the skin of his face was sending out rays of light as a result of his talking with [ADONAI].