Deuteronomy 9:15
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
Deuteronomy 9:15 in other translations
| BSB | So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands. |
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| WEB | 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. |
| ASV | So 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. |
| YLT | ‘And I turn, and come down from the mount, and the mount is burning with fire, and the two tables of the covenant on my two hands, |
| DARBY | And I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. |
| BBE | So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands. |
| Webster | So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. |
What does Deuteronomy 9:15 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 9:12-29
12-29. Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people ... have corrupted themselves--With a view to humble them effectually, Moses proceeds to particularize some of the most atrocious instances of their infidelity. He begins with the impiety of the golden calf--an impiety which, while their miraculous emancipation from Egypt, the most stupendous displays of the Divine Majesty that were exhibited on the…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 9:7-29
That the Israelites might have no pretence to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness, Moses shows what a miracle of mercy it was, that they had not been destroyed in the wilderness. It is good for us often to remember against ourselves, with sorrow and shame, our former sins; that we may see how much we are indebted to free grace, and may humbly own that we never merited any thing but wrath…
Deuteronomy 9:15 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 9:15
- Exodus 19:18
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
- Deuteronomy 5:23
And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
- Deuteronomy 4:11
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
- Exodus 32:14-35
And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. …
- Exodus 9:23
And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
- Hebrews 12:18
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
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Context
- Deuteronomy 9:14
Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
- Deuteronomy 9:15
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
- Deuteronomy 9:16
And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.
Deuteronomy 9:15 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y volví y descendí del monte, el cual ardía en fuego, con las tablas del pacto en mis dos manos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et je me tournai, et je descendis de la montagne (et la montagne était brûlante de feu), et les deux tables de l’alliance étaient sur mes deux mains. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und ich wandte mich und stieg von dem Berge herab, und die zwei Tafeln des Bundes waren auf meinen beiden Händen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cumque de monte ardente descenderem, et duas tabulas fœderis utraque tenerem manu, |