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Deuteronomy 9:17

I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

Deuteronomy 9:17 · World English Bible

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Deuteronomy 9:17 in other translations

KJV King James Version

And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

NHEB New Heart English Bible

I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

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In context

14 Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”

15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which the LORD had commanded you.

17 I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

18 I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also.

20 The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

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