28And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.”
There were some differences between the first and second giving of the Ten Commandments. In the first giving of the Decalogue, no inspiration was involved, because God wrote the words on the tables of stone with his own finger before he gave the tables to Moses (see Ex.31:18 and 32:16). Inspiration is involved only when there is a human penman of Scripture. In the second giving of the Ten Commandments, Moses carved the tables of stone and engraved upon them the very words that God gave to him (34:1,4,27-28). This is an example of inspiration.
We notice that even though Moses penned the words, God says that it was His own writing and His own words(v.1) The word “tenor”(v.27) means “according to the speech.” All of this means that Moses wrote the very words of God. It is the words of Scripture that are inspired (not the thoughts), and it is the words of Scripture that are preserved for us today. When the Bible is translated, it should be the words, not the thoughts, that are translated. “Write thou these words” is Gods standard.