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Moses was not the one that "etched" out either set. God wrote both. Both sets were identical.

The LORD said to Moses, 'Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.'
Exodus 34:1

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Good point.

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Moses was not the one that "etched" out either set. God wrote both. Both sets were identical. The LORD said to Moses, 'Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.' Exodus 34:1

Exactly! And this is why those tablets were revered and preserved and placed within the Ark of the Covenant. They were etched by the very hand of God. Perhaps on the day that it is found and opened we will ALL know the answer to your question. In the meantime, suffice it to say that whatever language God used to record His commandments to the children of Israel, they were understood, memorized, taught and passed down.

At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood. And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to place them in the ark.” So I made an ark of acacia wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands. And the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me, and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD had commanded me; and there they have remained. (Deuteronomy 10:1-5)