Why were the Ten Commandments on two tablets of stone? I always thought that the first tablet contained those commandments that related to the vertical, that is, commandments one through four while the other six dealt with our horizontal relationships and they were on the second tablet.
However, this was not the case. All the commandments were on one tablet so there were two copies of the covenant. Whenever a covenant was made between two people there were always two copies, one for each of the parties. The covenant of Moses had two copies because there were two parties, God and Israel. One copy was God's and one was man's but because God dwelt with man the two copies were kept together in the Ark of the Covenant.
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