Deuteronomy 9:15 “So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with…”

Deuteronomy 9:15

So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

American Standard Version

So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

Geneva Bible 1599

So I returned, and came downe from the Mount (and the Mount burnt with fire, and ye two Tables of the couenant were in my two handes)

Darby Translation

And I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

Young's Literal Translation

'And I turn, and come down from the mount, and the mount is burning with fire, and the two tables of the covenant on my two hands,

Bible in Basic English

So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands.

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Cross references

“I turned”

Exodus 32:14 Exodus 32:15–35

Exodus 32:14 · BSB

So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

Exodus 32:15–35 · BSB

Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.

“the mount”

Exodus 19:18 Deuteronomy 5:23 Deuteronomy 4:11 Exodus 9:23 Hebrews 12:18

Exodus 19:18 · BSB

Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

Deuteronomy 5:23 · BSB

And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,

Deuteronomy 4:11 · BSB

You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.

Exodus 9:23 · BSB

So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.

Hebrews 12:18 · BSB

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”

16And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.

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