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Deuteronomy 9:15

13 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.”

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.

17 So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

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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
So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.
KJV
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.
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.
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.
BLB
And I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with the fire, and the two tablets of the covenant [were] in my two hands.
ÅB
Da vendte jeg meg og gikk ned av fjellet, mens fjellet sto i brann, og i mine to hender hadde jeg paktens to tavler.
OTB
Så jeg snudde meg og kom ned fra fjellet mens det brant med ild, med de to paktens tavler i mine hender.
B1930
Da vendte jeg mig og gikk ned av fjellet, mens fjellet stod i brennende lue, og i mine to hender hadde jeg paktens to tavler.

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Cross references

  • Exodus 19:18

    Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

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  • Deuteronomy 5:23

    And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,

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  • Deuteronomy 4:11

    You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.

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  • Exodus 32:14–35

    So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

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  • Exodus 9:23

    So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.

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  • Hebrews 12:18

    For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;

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