Verses 1-4 “1And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
2And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
3And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
4And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.”
2And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
3And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
4And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.”
It is of the grace of God that the people are given the Law a second time. The Law of God was not given that man might be saved by keeping it. It was given that we might know how sinful we are. By the Law is the knowledge of sin (Rom.3:20). So God, in giving the Law a second time, gave to us a second opportunity to know our sinful condition. That is grace.
This second giving of the Law is an example of God preserving the Scriptures. We see that God gave the very “words that were in the first tables.” God gave the very words, not the thoughts, of the first tables. The Bible teaches verbal inspiration and verbal preservation i.e., the very words of God have been preserved. This is also the grace of God.