Deuteronomy 9:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ Then I took the sinful thing you had made, the calf, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly, until it was reduced to dust, and I threw the dust into the stream that runs down the mountain.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I cast the dust of it into the brook that came down out of the mountain.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

Common English Bible

²¹ And as for that sinful thing you made, that calf, I took it and I burned it with fire. Then I smashed it, grinding it thoroughly until it was as fine as dust. Then I dumped the dust into the stream that ran down the mountain.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ But as for your sin which you committed, that is, the calf, taking hold of it, I burned it with fire. And breaking it into pieces, and reducing it entirely to dust, I threw it into the torrent that descends from the mountain.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And your sin that you had committed, that is, the calf, I took, and burned it with fire: and breaking it into pieces, until it was as small as dust, I threw it into the torrent, which cometh down from the mountain.

Deuteronomy 9:21 Cross References

1 Kings 15:13

He also removed his mother Maacah from being queen mother, because she had made an abominable image for Asherah; Asa cut down her image and burned it at the Wadi Kidron.

2 Chronicles 34:7

he broke down the altars, beat the sacred poles and the images into powder, and demolished all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Exodus 32:20

He took the calf that they had made, burned it with fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.

Isaiah 30:22

Then you will defile your silver-covered idols and your gold-plated images. You will scatter them like impure things; you will say to them, “Away with you!”

Isaiah 31:7

For on that day all of you shall throw away your idols of silver and idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.

Hosea 8:11

When Ephraim multiplied altars to expiate sin, they became to him altars for sinning.

Micah 1:7

All her images shall be beaten to pieces, all her wages shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste; for as the wages of a prostitute she gathered them, and as the wages of a prostitute they shall again be used.

Deuteronomy 9:20

The Lord was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him, but I interceded also on behalf of Aaron at that same time.