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What does Exodus 34:28 mean?

"He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments."

— Exodus 34:28 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

25

“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The sacrifice of the feast of the Passover shall not be left to the morning.

26

“You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

27

Yahweh said to Moses, “Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

28

He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

29

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.

30

When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.

31

Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.

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