Talk:Tablets of Stone

message: This is confusing: it refers to the tablets being inscribed with the ten commandments, but Exodus 31:18 merely refers to "two tablets of the Testimony," and there are ten chapters' worth of additional commandments before that happens. Please clarify. - Montréalais 10:24, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not what I mean. That they're stone is fine, but I'm inquiring as to the scriptural justification of the belief that these stones contained only the Ten Commandments, rather than the books of the several chapters of the law that are mentioned in connection with them in Exodus. - Montréalais 07:14, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

text: Using the letter P in the example concerning the miraculous properties of the tables is misleading, since they were not written in the Latin alphabet, but in Hebrew (the letter samech would have the same property, however).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.23.229.72 (talk) 17:13, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Confusion

message: While there is Talmudic source for the tablets having rectangular shape, does anyone know a source for the iconic rounded-top shape?  (Is there a way to request that a question be researched by those with interest in a topic?)  JCSalomon (talk) 00:29, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Shape

message: They're very well known in English as the "Tables of the Law". It strictly doesn't matter what the literal translation of this or that verse from the Bible actually reads like, the name "Tables of the Law" is deeply entrenched in the language. Let's get real, please! Arminden (talk) 23:56, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong name in English

message: It seems to me that NIV bible linked in the article implies that Moses wrote on the new set of tablets after the words of God, not God himself.
27 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant — the Ten Commandments.
Note that God commands Moses to write down his words - to me it sounds like command to write on the tablets (it will make no sense to write it down on different media and make that the covenant, not the tables themself). Also "he" is lowercase, so it refers to Moses, not to God. --Dmitry Platonov (talk) 07:07, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who wrote the New Stone Tablets 

message: I can't cite a source off the top of my head, but I think this is worth mentioning (in the "Content" section). In some Christian artwork I see that there are 5 commandments on the one tablet and 5 on the other, but in other Christian artwork I see 3 on the one tablet and 7 on the other. This isn't just some obscure oddity that I've run into; many works of art go with 3+7 rather than 5+5. I don't know the history behind it, but I do know that 3+7 corresponds with the traditional Catholic numbering (3 commandments pertaining to love of God, and 7 to love of neighbor) and reflects the Augustinian numerology (3 symbolizes God while 7 signifies man if I recall correctly). The artists have deliberately composed their works in this manner, to convey the symbolism. Whereas I am not sure what 5+5 symbolizes, if anything. 73.133.224.40 (talk) 02:52, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  5+5 vs. 3+7