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Deuteronomy 9:13

11 And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

12 And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”

The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

14 Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”

15 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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BSB
The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
KJV
Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
WEB
Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
ASV
Furthermore Jehovah spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
DARBY
And Jehovah spoke unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
BLB
And YHWH spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and indeed it [is] a people stiff of neck.
ÅB
Og Herren sa til meg: Jeg har lagt merke til dette folk og sett at det er et hårdnakket folk.
OTB
Og Herren sa, ‘Jeg har sett dette folket, og de er virkelig et stivnakket folk.
B1930
Og Herren sa til mig: Jeg har lagt merke til dette folk og sett at det er et hårdnakket folk.

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Cross references

  • Deuteronomy 9:6

    Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.

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  • Deuteronomy 10:16

    Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.

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  • 2 Kings 17:14

    But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.

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  • Deuteronomy 31:27

    For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!

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  • Exodus 32:9–10

    The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

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  • Malachi 3:5

    “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

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  • Genesis 18:21

    I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”

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  • Genesis 11:5

    Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.

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