* cast them.
   Moses might have done this through distress and anguish of
   spirit, on beholding their abominable idolatry and dissolute
   conduct; or probably he did it emblematically, and perhaps by
   the direction of God; intimating thereby, that as by this act
   of his the tables were broken in pieces, on which the Law of
   God was written, so they, by their present conduct, had made a
   breach in the covenant, and broken the laws of their Maker and
   Sovereign.

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