Did Moses actually write the Ten Commandments?

At first glance, it looks like the Bible indicates Moses wrote down the Ten Commandments on the tablets. In the King James, it states, “He wrote upon the tables…” with the pronoun “he” in small letters. In the New King James, all pronouns referring to God are capitalized. And so the above text reads, “And He wrote on the tablets.”

We can be sure that God alone wrote on the tablets by looking at other Scriptures. Speaking of this same event, Moses later wrote: “At that time the Lord said to me, ‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an ark of wood. And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you shall put them in the ark.’ So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the Lord had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me” (Deuteronomy 10:1–4).

Another text makes it very explicit: “When He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God” (Exodus 31:18). And elsewhere, “Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tablets” (Exodus 32:16). It is true that the second set of tablets were hewed out by Moses, but God wrote on them.

Key Bible Texts

And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. (Exodus 34:27 KJV)