Deuteronomy 9:17

Brenton's Septuagint

then I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before you.

Parallel Translations

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

King James Version (1611)
And I tooke the two Tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

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.

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,

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.

World English Bible
I took hold of 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.

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.

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.

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.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands and smashed them before your eyes.

Contextual Overview

⁷ Remember, forget not, how much thou provokedst the Lord thy God in the wilderness: from the day that ye came forth out of Egypt, even till ye came into this place, ye continued to be disobedient toward the Lord. ⁸ Also in Choreb ye provoked the Lord, and the Lord was angry with you to destroy you; ⁹ when I went up into the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant, which the Lord made with you, and I was in the mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water. ¹⁰ And the Lord gave me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and on them there had been written all the words which the Lord spoke to you in the mountain in the day of the assembly. ¹¹ And it came to pass after forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant. ¹² And the Lord said to me, Arise, go down quickly from hence, for thy people whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt have transgressed; they have gone aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them, and have made themselves a molten image. ¹³ And the Lord spoke to me, saying, I have spoken to thee once and again, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people. ¹⁴ And now suffer me utterly to destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of thee a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this. ¹⁵ And I turned and went down from the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to heaven; and the two tables of the testimonies were in my two hands. ¹⁶ And when I saw that ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made to yourselves a molten image, and had gone astray out of the way, which the Lord commanded you to keep;

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.