What was the significance of Moses' breaking the first set of the 10 commandment stone tablets?

[TonyChanYT]

Exodus 24:

12 The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.”
18 Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

During those 40 days, God told Moses the instructions about the tabernacle and the priesthood in the next 7 chapters. Finally, Exodus 31:

18 he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

Meanwhile, at the foot of the mountain, Exodus 32:

1 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

The Israelites rebelled against the Lord and made a golden calf and had a worship party. Moses saw their behavior:

19 as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses’ anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

Moses broke the stone tablets testimony written with the finger of God. Was Moses disrespecting the stone tablets?

No, on the contrary, in the eyes of the people, Moses represented God. Moses displayed divine anger. This was a sign that Israel had broken the covenant.

 

[Stumpmaster]

This was a sign that Israel had broken the covenant.

Foreshadowing future unfaithfulness and God's dealing with it.

 

[Lambano]

What was the significance of Moses' breaking the first set of the 10 commandment stone tablets?​

"Rules were meant to be broken"?

 

[quietthinker]

What was the significance of Moses' breaking the first set of the 10 commandment stone tablets?​

Another trip up the Mountain!

 

[Taken]

What was the significance of Moses' breaking the first set of the 10 commandment stone tablets?

Foreshadowing.

Struggles of BELIEVERS (In God) falling short to keep every commandment by their own Will Power.

Prophecy revealed.

A waiting … (effecting TRUST in God)…without knowing WHEN or MANNER God would SEND a SAVIOR…(A Messiah)

Belief among Tribes was constant…TRUST (once the Messiah was revealed)…Wavering, Largely Rejected. (Manner…in the Likeness AS A man BLINDED many Believing Tribes of Israel.)

Opened PATH for Gentiles, curiosity, interest, in God of Israel, to Hear His word, Trust His word, Forgiveness offered when falling short of obedience.

Unknown additional Knowledge Revealed, Captured Gentiles interest, of a Permanent Forgiveness for short-comings, Establishing First and Foremost a Permanent Relationship with the Lord God, Kept Constant by, through, of the Power/Spirit of God, IN THEM.

** A Permanent relationship between a man and the Lord God RESOLVED/ established.
** DISCONTENT between and among men, NOT resolved.
** SOLUTION For continual discontent between and among men RESOLVED.
(Continual forgiveness between men AS God maintains a forever Forgiveness unto Faithful men).
** INTERNAL peace by, through, of the Spirit of God Within the man.

** Do this, Do not Do that OF the 10 Commandments, (SIGNIFICANCE ? ALL 10 Commands SHALL Broken by ALL earthly men.)
AND…
SHALL for the truly Repentant BE Forgiven and Kept in the Condition of Forgiven;
By, through, of…ANY man WHO;
TRUSTS the Word of the Lord God, His Power/Spirit SHALL Dwell IN THEM, to SECURE their Forgiveness and the Lord God FOREVER be WITH THEM.

Glory to God,
Taken