Deuteronomy 9:17

The NET Bible®

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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.

World English Bible
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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Literal Translation
And I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands, and broke 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 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!

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

Christian Standard Bible®
So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from 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,

Contextual Overview

⁷ Remember—don't ever forget—how you provoked the Lord your God in the desert; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him. ⁸ At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you. ⁹ When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing. ¹⁰ The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger of God, and on them was everything he said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly. ¹¹ Now at the end of the forty days and nights the Lord presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant. ¹² And he said to me, "Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image." ¹³ Moreover, he said to me, "I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn lot! ¹⁴ Stand aside and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are." ¹⁵ So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands. ¹⁶ When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way he had 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.