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Deuteronomy 9:17

American Standard Version

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

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Deuteronomy 9:17 in other translations

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

Deuteronomy 9:17 in context

  1. 15So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
  2. 16And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against Jehovah your God; ye had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah had commanded you.
  3. 17And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
  4. 18And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
  5. 19For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you. But Jehovah hearkened unto me that time also.