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How big were the Tablets of The Ten Commandments?

According to “Encyclopedia Judaica”, they weighed 40 se’ah (selah) which equalled 913 grams, that is about 2 pounds. This means they were quite small. The biblical record states that when Moses brought them down the mountain, “the two tables of the testimony were in his hand [singular]: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.” (Exodus 32:15,16)

Notice, according to the record he held them BOTH in his one hand; and they were engraved front and back. That clears up two popular misconceptions.
(Artists often portray them as large, with one carried on each arm, and everything written on the front side only.)