# tablets of the covenant decrees
These are the two stone slabs on which God had engraved his commandments.
# The tablets were God's own work, and the writing was God's own writing
These two phrases share similar meanings. The second explains how the tablets were "God's own work." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/written]]