Where did Moses throw the tablets?

foot of the mountain
As he approached the camp and saw the calf and the groups dancing, Moses’ anger blazed. He threw down the tablets he was holding and broke them at the foot of the mountain (Exod 32:15, 19).

Why did Moses drop the tablets?

According to the above three Midrashim, Moses’ motive in breaking the tablets was in defense of Israel, to provide an extenuation for their sin, to throw his lot in with theirs.

How many tablets did Moses carry?

two
No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain.” So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the LORD had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.

Where did God gave the 2 stone tablets to Moses?

Then Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him; and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.” The two tablets rest in the ark of the covenant.

When did Moses get the tablets?

The book of Exodus (31: 18; 32: 15–16) tells of Moses receiving from God the ‘tablets of the testimony’ inscribed by ‘the finger of God’. When Moses came down from the mount and saw his people worshipping the golden calf he cast the tablets from his hands and broke them (Exodus 32: 19).

When did Moses throw the tablets?

According to the biblical narrative the first set of tablets, inscribed by the finger of God, (Exodus 31:18) were smashed by Moses when he was enraged by the sight of the Children of Israel worshipping a golden calf (Exodus 32:19) and the second were later chiseled out by Moses and rewritten by God (Exodus 34:1).

Did Moses break the tablets?

What happened to the two tablets of Moses?

What happened to the original 10 Commandments tablets?

Buried for centuries Michaels said the the tablet’s home was either destroyed by the Romans between 400 and 600 AD, or by the Crusaders in the 11th century, and that the stone had lain buried in the rubble of the ruins for centuries before its discovery near Yavneh.