The ‘tables of the law’ (Exod. 24: 12) were the two stones on which the Ten Commandments were carved on Mount Sinai.
Writing tablets might be made of wood covered with wax (Isa. 30: 8; Luke 1: 63).
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"tables." In A Dictionary of the Bible. Ed. W. R. F. Browning. Oxford Biblical Studies Online. May 25, 2013. <http://www.oxfordbiblicalcstudies.com/article/opr/t94/e1858>.
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"tables." In A Dictionary of the Bible. , edited by W. R. F. Browning. Oxford Biblical Studies Online, http://www.oxfordbiblicalcstudies.com/article/opr/t94/e1858 (accessed May 25, 2013).