Isn't the description of God on the mountain amazing and scary? I find it fascinating that the elders of Israel, Moses and a few others get to experience Him in this way? It is amazing to me.
Notice that Moses gets the law and commandments on the tablets – not just the Ten Commandments. Those tablets did not look like the ones in our courthouses or posters. Yet the principles in those ten does trickle down to the rest. Many have argued that commandments 1-4 deal with God and 5-10 deal with people, pulling from our "Love the Lord, Love your neighbor" command from Jesus. The other laws we see in these chapters primarily teach us how to live with one another in a manor that would please Him. Notice God deals with the minor details – even what may be considered trivial – to live together in harmony and to live the way God would want us to.
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