Basing their opinions on Cecile B. DeMille’s classic movie The Ten Commandments, many people assume that Moses climbed that mountain once, got everything, then came back down with the stone tablets tucked under his arm. A careful study of Exodus, however, shows he actually made seven trips. He climbed up and down, up and down, up and down—a very busy man. And he took care of these matters before he ever had his forty-day vigil in God’s presence to receive God’s handwritten Word.
