8/29/2008

Tablets of Stone

Exodus 24:12 - The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commands I have written for their instruction."

I wonder what shape the tablets were. Modern artists' renditions (that I've seen) of them usually consist of vertical rectangles with rounded tops. But who's to say they weren't square, triangular, circular, or some other regular shape? Triangular tablets would have carried some built-in symbolism related to the Trinity. Other shapes could have been symbolic as well.

I'm curious. Could you please tell me what brought you to this page by mentioning it in a comment? I won't publish the comment, if you ask me not to.

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