Deuteronomy 9:8 - Easy To Read Version You made the Lord angry at Mount Horeb (Sinai). The Lord was angry enough to destroy you! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Even in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you. American Standard Version (1901) Also in Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you to destroy you. Common English Bible Even at Horeb you angered the LORD! He was so enraged by you that he threatened to wipe you out. Catholic Public Domain Version For at Horeb also, you provoked him, and, becoming angry, he was willing to destroy you, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For in Horeb also thou didst provoke him: and he was angry, and would have destroyed thee, |
So we know that we must not break your commands. We must not marry those people. Those people do very bad things. God, if we continue to marry those bad people, we know you will destroy us! Then there would be no person from the people of Israel left alive.
God himself had made those stones. And God himself wrote the commandments on those stones.
“‘But the family of Israel turned against me in the desert. They did not follow my laws. They refused to obey my rules. \{And they are good rules\}—if a person obeys those rules, then he will live. They treated my special days of rest as if they were not important. They worked on those days many, many times. I decided to destroy them in the desert—to let them feel the full force of my anger.
“At Mount Horeb (Sinai) the Lord our God spoke to us. He said, ‘You have stayed at this mountain long enough.
I was afraid of the Lord’s terrible anger. He was angry enough to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me again.