Deuteronomy 9:20
18 Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
19 For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.
The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.
21 And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.
22 You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.
- KJV
- And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
- WEB
- The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
- ASV
- And Jehovah was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
- DARBY
- And with Aaron Jehovah was very angry to destroy him; and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
- BLB
- And against Aaron YHWH was very angry [and] would have destroyed him. And I prayed also for Aaron at that time.
- ÅB
- Også på Aron var Herren så vred at han ville ødelegge ham; men jeg ba også for Aron den gang.
- OTB
- Herren var sint nok på Aron til å ødelegge ham, men jeg ba for Aron den gangen også.
- B1930
- Også på Aron var Herren så vred at han vilde ødelegge ham; men jeg bad også for Aron den gang.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 32:21
“What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”
Read in contextExodus 32:35
And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.
Read in contextHebrews 7:26–28
Such a high priest truly befits us—One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
Read in contextExodus 32:2–5
So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”
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