King James Version (KJV)
Deuteronomy 9:17
“And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.”
Verse in context — Deuteronomy 9
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.
And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, [and] had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
About Deuteronomy
Moses’ final speeches, reminding Israel of God’s law before entering the Promised Land.
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