Deuteronomy 9:17

17 So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes.

Deuteronomy 9:17 in Other Translations

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

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

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

17 I held the two stone slabs high and threw them down, smashing them to bits as you watched.

17 So I took hold of the tablets and threw them from my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

Deuteronomy 9:17 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 9:17

And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands,
&c.] 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.

Deuteronomy 9:17 In-Context

15 So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

16 When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.

17 So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes.

18 Then once again I fell prostrate before the LORD for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the LORD’s sight and so arousing his anger.

19 I feared the anger and wrath of the LORD, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you. But again the LORD listened to me.