# 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]]