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Deuteronomy Chapter 9 verse 17 Holy Bible

ASV Deuteronomy 9:17

And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
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BBE Deuteronomy 9:17

And I let the stones go from my hands, and they were broken before your eyes.
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DARBY Deuteronomy 9:17

And I seized the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
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KJV Deuteronomy 9:17

And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
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WBT Deuteronomy 9:17

And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
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WEB Deuteronomy 9:17

I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
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YLT Deuteronomy 9:17

`And I lay hold on the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and break them before your eyes,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - Moses cast from him the two tables of stone on which God had inscribed the words of the Law, and broke them in pieces in the view of the people, when he came down from the mount and saw how they had turned aside from the right way, and were become idolaters. This was not the effect of a burst of indignation on his part; it was a solemn declaration that the covenant of God with his people had been nullified and broken by their sinful apostasy.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) I . . . brake them before your eyes.--This shows that the act was deliberate on Moses' part. He did not simply drop the tables in his passion before they reached the camp; he deliberately broke the material covenant in the face of the people, who had broken the covenant itself. When we remember the effect of hastily touching not the tables of the Law themselves, but the mere chest that contained them, in after-times, we may well believe that the breaking of these two tables was an act necessary for the safety of Israel. In Exodus 33:7, we read that Moses placed the temporary tabernacle outside the camp at the same time. The two actions seem to have had the same significance, and to have been done for the same reason.