Deuteronomy 9:8
What does Deuteronomy 9:8 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 9:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Also in Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you to destroy you.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Also in Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you to destroy you.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862even in Horeb ye have made Jehovah wroth, and Jehovah sheweth Himself angry against you--to destroy you.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752For in Horeb, also thou didst provoke him, and he was angry, and would have destroyed thee,
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And at Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you, to destroy you,
Context
v.7Remember, forget thou not, how thou provokedst Jehovah thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou wentest forth out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah.
v.8This passage
v.9When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 32:16
And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
- Exodus 32:7
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, that thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
- Psalms 106:19
They made a calf in Horeb, And worshipped a molten image.
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