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Often appears with: ten commandments · forty-day absence · education and the training of the young · crime and punishment · additional laws requested
Usually: narrative (1) · crisis of belief (1)
“for he was absent from them forty days,” fear seized upon the Hebrews, lest Moses should have come to any harm;” Josephus, Flavius, Antiquities of the Jews · observation
After Moses reports the ten commandments, the congregation disperses; on the following days Israelites request more laws, and Moses ascends again for forty days, during which the camp fears for him.
not be guilty of theft. The ninth, that we must not bear false witness. The tenth, that we must not admit of the desire of any thing that is another's. 6. Now when the multitude had heard God himself giving those precepts which Moses had discoursed of, they rejoiced at what was said; and the congregation was dissolved: but on the following days they came to his tent, and desired him to bring them, besides, other law…