Deuteronomy 9:17
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
Deuteronomy 9:17 in other translations
| BSB | So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes. |
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| WEB | I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. |
| ASV | And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. |
| YLT | ‘And I lay hold on the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and break them before your eyes, |
| DARBY | And I seized the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. |
| BBE | And I let the stones go from my hands, and they were broken before your eyes. |
| Webster | And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. |
What does Deuteronomy 9:17 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 9:17 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- 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 9:17
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
- Deuteronomy 9:18
And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
Deuteronomy 9:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Entonces tomé las dos tablas, y arrojélas de mis dos manos, y quebrélas delante de vuestros ojos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et je saisis les deux tables, et les jetai de dessus mes deux mains, et je les brisai devant vos yeux. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und ich faßte die beiden Tafeln und warf sie aus meinen beiden Händen und zerbrach sie vor euren Augen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | projeci tabulas de manibus meis, confregique eas in conspectu vestro. |