(Exod. 31:18:) WHEN HE HAD FINISHED SPEAKING WITH HIM ON MOUNT SINAI, HE THEN GAVE UNTO MOSES. Rav Huna said: Resh Laqish said: Just as the bride adorns herself in twenty-four ornaments; so a wise student needs to be versed in twenty-four books (of the Bible).³¹., Exod. 9:16; Exod. R. 41:5. R. Levi said: What (in Exod. 31:18) is the meaning of WHEN HE HAD FINISHED (rt.: KLH)? Just as the bride (KLH) secludes herself all the time that she is in her father's house so that no one knows her, and only when she is about to enter the wedding canopy, does she reveal her face, saying: Whoever knows of testimony against me, let him come and testify against me; so a wise student must be modest like a bride and be famous³², rt.: PRSM; cf. Gk.: parresia (“outspokenness”). through his good deeds like the bride who is famous. (Exod. 31:18:) AS UNTO HIS BRIDE,³³). HE THEN GAVE UNTO MOSES.

footnotes: ³¹ Tanh ³² mefursemet ³³ So the midrash interprets WHEN HE HAD FINISHED (KKLWTW