After the intercession, the mercy, and the glimpse of the tefillin knot, the Lord gave Moses a practical command that would take him back up Sinai a second time.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, the Aramaic paraphrase of the Torah, preserves the order with all its weight. "Hew you two tables of stone, as the former, and write upon the tables the words that were upon the former tables which you did break" (Exodus 34:1).
Two details deserve attention. First, Moses must hew the tables himself this time. The first set had been carved by God (Exodus 32:16). The second will be carved by a human hand. The sages later taught that this explains why the second set included the Oral Torah in a way the first did not. Human labor invited human study. The shattered stones had been divine monologue. The rewritten stones would be divine-human conversation.
Second, Moses must write upon them the words that were upon the former tables "which you did break." The Targum does not soften this. The rebuke stays. Yes, Moses broke the first ones. Yes, that breaking was itself a righteous act to prevent worse damage. But the breaking is named, and the second set is, in part, a correction.
This is Jewish teshuvah at the national scale. The same words, carved again, but this time by the people themselves. Repentance does not undo what happened. It rewrites from inside what was lost.
Takeaway: The tablets we break can be rewritten. But the second carving belongs to us, not to Heaven. That is the mercy and the weight together.