Exodus 32:15

The Ten Commandments

• §2058Section Two · The Ten CommandmentsRead at vatican.va

  “These "tables of the Testimony" were to be deposited in "the ark."” — Catechism footnote: Ex 25:16; 31:18; 32:15; 34:29; 40:1-2.

In the Old Testament

• §2577Article 1 · In the Old TestamentRead at vatican.va

  From this intimacy with the faithful God, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, Moses drew strength and determination for his intercession. He does not pray for himself but for the people whom God made his own.

• Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 21

  “Whatever he thought, was a law for them, whatever on the contrary he disapproved, they abjured: his decisions were to them the tables of Moses, and they paid him more reverence than is due from men to the Saints.” — editor's note: Exod. xxxii. 15; xxxiv. 1.

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Parallel passages

• Deuteronomy 9:15

  Exodus 32:15 and Deuteronomy 9:15 share the same wording (10 words).

Cited together with

• Exodus 34:29

  Cited together in Catechism §2058.

• Exodus 40:1

  Cited together in Catechism §2058.

• Exodus 40:2

  Cited together in Catechism §2058.

• Deuteronomy 5:22

  Cited together in Catechism §2058.

• Exodus 25:16

  Cited together in Catechism §2058.

• Exodus 31:18

  Cited together in Catechism §2058.