Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 34:1

1 AND the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone , like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest.

The first Tables were made immediately by God, who of his own meer grace and good pleasure, and without mans merit or contrivance entred into Covenant with Abraham and his Seed, these Tables must be made by Moses, partly in token of Gods displcasure for their sin, and partly to signifie, that though the Covenant of grace was first made without mans care and counsel, yet it should not be renewed but by mans repentance. And as the Tables of stone signified the hardness of their hearts, so the having of them by Moses might signifie the circumcision and plowing up of their hearts that they might be fit for the receiving of Gods mercies and the performance of their duties.

To shew Gods reception of Israel [illegible: 1+ letters]nto his favour and their former state, and that the Law and Covenant of God was neither abolished nor changed by their sin.

Marginal references: Deut. 10. 1.