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Line 2: {{for|funeral or commemorative tablets carved in stone|Stele}} {{Ten Commandments series}} According to the [[Hebrew Bible]], the '''Tablets of the Law''' (also '''Tablets of Stone''', '''Stone Tablets''', or '''Tablets of Testimony'''; [[Biblical Hebrew]]: לוּחֹת הַבְּרִית '' According to the biblical narrative, the first set of tablets, inscribed by the [[finger of God]], ({{bibleref2|Exodus|31:18|NIV}}) were smashed by Moses when he was enraged by the sight of the [[Children of Israel]] worshiping a [[golden calf]] ({{bibleref2|Exodus|32:19|NIV}}) and the second were later chiseled out by Moses and rewritten by God ({{bibleref2|Exodus|34:1|NIV}}). Line 8: According to traditional teachings of [[Judaism]] in the [[Talmud]], the stones were made of blue [[sapphire]] as a symbolic reminder of the sky, the heavens, and ultimately of God's [[throne]]. Many [[Torah]] scholars, however, have opined that the biblical ''sapir'' was, in fact, [[lapis lazuli]] (see {{bibleref2|Exodus|24:10|NIV}}, lapis lazuli is a possible alternate rendering of "sapphire" the stone pavement under God's feet when the intention to craft the tablets of the covenant is disclosed {{bibleref2|Exodus|24:12|NIV}}).<ref>See: Staples, W. E., "Lapis Lazuli", in ''The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible'', vol. 3, p. 72</ref> According to {{Bibleref2|Exodus|25:10–22}}, the tablets were stored in the [[Ark of the Covenant]]. [[Alan Millard]] and [[Daniel I. Block]] note parallels between this aspect of Israelite religion with the practice of other [[Ancient Near Eastern]] cultures whose treaty texts were preserved in their temples.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Reading the Law: Studies in Honour of Gordon J. Wenham |last=Millard |first=Alan R. |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-567-45454-6 |editor-last=McConville |editor-first=J. G. |page=264–265 |chapter=The Tablets in the Ark |editor-last2=Möller |editor-first2=Karl |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ipUKbxg6dkIC&pg=PA264}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Write That They May Read: Studies in Literacy and Textualization in the Ancient Near East and in the Hebrew Scriptures: Essays in Honour of Professor Alan R. Millard |last=Block |first=Daniel I. |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-7252-5210-3 |editor-last=Block |editor-first=Daniel I. |page=113 |chapter=For Whose Eyes? The Divine Origin and Function of the Two Tablets of the Israelite Covenant |editor-last2=Deuel |editor-first2=David C. |editor-last3=Collins |editor-first3=C. John |editor-last4=Lawrence |editor-first4=Paul J. N. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mSj4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA113}}</ref> Alternatively, [[Thomas Römer]] ==Appearance of the tablets== Line 40: File:Moises.jpg|Sharp corners by [[Michelangelo]], c. 1513–1515 Philippe de Champaigne - Moses with the Ten Commandments - WGA04717.jpg|Moses with the Ten Commandments by [[Philippe de Champaigne]], 1648 File:Rabbi_Raphael_Evers.jpg|Example behind rabbi [[Raphael Evers]], son of [[Bloeme Evers-Emden]], friend with [[Anne Frank]]; most hebrew lines are incomplete. </gallery> |