Handing Over of the Tables of the Law

Exodus 19:1-3, 24:12, 32:1-24, 32:19-20, 34:1
Cosimo Rosselli
(Florence 1439 – 1507)

Moses is depicted receiving the Ten Commandments two times, as stated in the Bible.  He receives the Tablets for the first time, upper center, and then breaks them when he descends from the mountain and sees the Israelites worshipping the golden calf.  He is depicted descending from the mountain with the Tablets for the second time on the left

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