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According to the [[Hebrew Bible]], the '''Tablets of the Law''' (also '''Tablets of Stone''', '''Stone Tablets''', or '''Tablets of Testimony'''; [[Biblical Hebrew]]: לוּחֹת הַבְּרִית ''lûḥōtlūḥōt habbǝrîthabbǝrīt'' "tablets of the covenant", לֻחֹת הָאֶבֶן ''lūḥōtluḥōt hāʾebenhāʾeḇen'' or לֻחֹת אֶבֶן ''lūḥōtluḥōt ebenʾeḇen'' or לֻחֹת אֲבָנִים ''lūḥōtluḥōt ʾăbānîmʾăbānīm'' "stone tablets", and לֻחֹת הָעֵדֻת ''lūḥōtluḥōt hāʿēdūthāʿēdut'' "tablets of testimony", [[Arabic]]: أَلْوَاحُ مُوسَى ''āl-wāḥ Mūsā'' "the tablets of Moses") were the two [[stone tablet]]s inscribed with the [[Ten Commandments]] when [[Moses]] ascended [[Mount Sinai (Bible)|Mount Sinai]] as written in the [[Book of Exodus]].<ref>[[William Schniedewind]] has proposed that the original contents of the tablets as described in Exodus were the instructions for building the [[Tabernacle]]. See {{cite book |author=William M. Schniedwind |title=How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel |year=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-82946-1 |chapter=7: How the Torah Became a Text}}</ref>

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}}).