Ibn Ezra on Ki Sisa 34:4

English: AND HE HEWED TWO TABLES OF STONE…AND TOOK IN HIS HAND TWO TABLES OF STONE. It is Hebrew style to speak thus and say, and took in his hand two tables of stone . 15 Even though Scripture has already told us in the first part of the verse that the tablets were of stone. The verse does not say, and took in his hand the two tables. 16 Mentioned in the first part of the verse. Our verse is similar to Then the Lord caused to rain upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord (Gen. 19:24). 17 The second Lord appears to be redundant. Scripture does not say, “from Himself.” 18 In place of from the Lord . We similarly find Scripture using the phrase the children of Israel five times in