Deuteronomy 9:14

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.”

¹³ The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

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.

¹⁶ And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: 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.”
KJV: 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.
WEB: 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.”
ASV: 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.
DARBY: 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.
BLB: Desist from Me, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”

ÅB: La nå meg få råde, så vil jeg gjøre ende på dem og utslette deres navn under himmelen, og jeg vil gjøre deg til et sterkere og større folk enn dette.
OTB: La Meg være, så jeg kan ødelegge dem og utslette deres navn fra under himmelen. Da vil jeg gjøre deg til en nasjon sterkere og mer tallrik enn de.’
B1930: La nu mig få råde, så vil jeg gjøre ende på dem og utslette deres navn under himmelen, og jeg vil gjøre dig til et sterkere og større folk enn dette.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Deuteronomy 29:20
The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
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Exodus 32:10–13
Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
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Psalms 9:5
You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever.
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Revelation 3:5
Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.
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Numbers 14:11–12
And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
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Acts 7:51
You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
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Psalms 109:13
May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
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Luke 11:7–10
And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Do not bother me. My door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’
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