Deuteronomy 9:17

Literal Standard Version

And I lay hold on the two tablets, and cast them out of my two hands, and break them before your eyes,

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

King James Version
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

Lexham English Bible
And I took hold of the two tablets, and I threw them out of my two hands and smashed them before your eyes.

English Standard Version
So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes.

New Century Version
So I took the two stone tablets and threw them down, breaking them into pieces right in front of you.

New English Translation
I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down, and shattered them before your very eyes.

Amplified Bible
"So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my two hands and smashed them before your very eyes!

New American Standard Bible
"So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my two hands, and smashed them to pieces before your eyes!

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore I tooke the two Tables, and cast them out of my two handes, and brake them before your eyes.

Legacy Standard Bible
And I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands and shattered them before your eyes.

Contemporary English Version
So I threw down the two stones and smashed them before your very eyes.

Complete Jewish Bible
I seized the two tablets, threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes.

Darby Translation
And I seized the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

Easy-to-Read Version
So I took the two stone tablets and threw them down. There before your eyes I broke the stones into pieces.

George Lamsa Translation
And I took the two tablets, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

Good News Translation
So there in front of you I threw the stone tablets down and broke them to pieces.

Christian Standard Bible®
So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then toke I the two tables, & cast them out of both my handes, & brake the before youre eyes,

American Standard Version
And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

Bible in Basic English
And I let the stones go from my hands, and they were broken before your eyes.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I toke the two tables, and cast them out of my two handes, and brake them before your eyes.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

King James Version (1611)
And I tooke the two Tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
then I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before you.

English Revised Version
And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

Berean Standard Bible
So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y castide doun the tablis fro myn hondis, and brak tho tablis in youre siyt.

Young's Literal Translation
`And I lay hold on the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and break them before your eyes,

Update Bible Version
And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

World English Bible
I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

New King James Version
Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes.

New Living Translation
So I took the stone tablets and threw them to the ground, smashing them before your eyes.

New Life Bible
So I took the two pieces of stone and threw them from my hands, and broke them in front of your eyes.

New Revised Standard
So I took hold of the two tablets and flung them from my two hands, smashing them before your eyes.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So I seized the two tables, and cast them from off my two hands, - and brake them in pieces before your eyes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I cast the tables out of my hands, and broke them in your sight.

Revised Standard Version
So I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands and smashed them before your eyes.

Contextual Overview

⁷Remember [and] do not forget that [with] which you have made your God YHWH angry in the wilderness; from the day that you have come out of the land of Egypt until your coming to this place, you have been rebellious against YHWH; ⁸even in Horeb you have made YHWH angry, and YHWH shows Himself angry against you—to destroy you. ⁹In my going up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone (tablets of the covenant which YHWH has made with you), then I abide on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I have not eaten bread and I have not drunk water; ¹⁰and YHWH gives to me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them [is] according to all the words which YHWH has spoken with you on the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly. ¹¹And it comes to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, YHWH has given the two tablets of stone to me—tablets of the covenant. ¹²Then YHWH says to me, Rise, go down, hurry from here, for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have done corruptly; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I have commanded them—they have made a molten thing for themselves! ¹³And YHWH speaks to me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it [is] a people stiff of neck. ¹⁴Desist from Me, and I destroy them, and blot out their name from under the heavens, and I make you become a nation more mighty and numerous than it. ¹⁵And I turn and come down from the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant [are] on my two hands, ¹⁶and I see, and behold, you have sinned against your God YHWH; you have made a molten calf for yourselves; you have quickly turned aside from the way which YHWH has commanded you.

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.