📜WEB · Deuteronomy 9:15

What does Deuteronomy 9:15 mean?

"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."

— Deuteronomy 9:15 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

12

Yahweh said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”

13

Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

14

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.”

15

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.

16

I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molten calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which Yahweh had commanded you.

17

I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

18

I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

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