Deuteronomium 9:17

Staten Vertaling

Toen vatte ik de twee tafelen, en wierp ze heen uit beide mijn handen, en brak ze voor uw ogen.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Toen vatte ik de twee stenen tafelen, en ik wierp die uit mijne handen, en brak ze voor uwe ogen.

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
En ik vatte de twee tafelen, wierp ze van mijn beide handen en verbrijzelde ze voor uw ogen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cast them: Moses might have done this through distress and anguish of spirit, on beholding their abominable idolatry and dissolute conduct; or probably he did it emblematically, and perhaps by the direction of God; intimating thereby, that as by this act of his the tables were broken in pieces, on which the Law of God was written, so they, by their present conduct, had made a breach in the covenant, and broken the laws of their Maker and Sovereign. Deuteronomy 9:17

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:19 - he saw

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands,.... In wrath and indignation at the sin they were guilty of:

and brake them before your eyes; as an emblem of their breach of them by transgressing them.