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Complete Jewish Bible

Deuteronomy 9:20

In addition, Adonai was very angry with Aharon and would have destroyed him; but I prayed for Aharon also at the same time.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aaron;   Anger;   Humility;   Intercession;   Israel;   Moses;   Reproof;   Thompson Chain Reference - Anger;   God;   God's;   Wrath-Anger;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Calf of Gold;   Theocracy, the, or Immediate Government by God;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Jesus Christ;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judgment Day;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aaron;   Calf, Golden;   Deuteronomy;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aaron;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD was very angry with Aharon to destroy him: and I prayed for Aharon also at the same time.
King James Version
And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
Lexham English Bible
And with Aaron Yahweh was angry enough to destroy him, and I prayed also for Aaron at that time.
English Standard Version
And the Lord was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
New Century Version
And the Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but then I prayed for Aaron, too.
New English Translation
The Lord was also angry enough at Aaron to kill him, but at that time I prayed for him too.
Amplified Bible
"The LORD was very angry with Aaron, angry [enough] to destroy him, so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.
New American Standard Bible
"The LORD was also angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Likewise ye Lorde was very angrie with Aaron, euen to destroy him: but at that time I prayed also for Aaron.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.
Darby Translation
And with Aaron Jehovah was very angry to destroy him; and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord was very angry with Aaron—enough to destroy him! So I also prayed for Aaron at that time.
George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD was angry enough with Aaron to have destroyed him; and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
Good News Translation
The Lord was also angry enough with Aaron to kill him, so I prayed for Aaron at the same time.
Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. But I prayed for Aaron at that time also.
Literal Translation
And Jehovah was very angry with Aaron, to destroy him, and I also prayed for Aaron at that time.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Morouer the LORDE was very angrie wt Aaron, so that he wolde haue destroyed him, but I made intercession for Aaron also at ye same tyme.
American Standard Version
And Jehovah was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same time.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Lorde was very angry with Aaron also, euen to haue destroyed hym: and I made intercession for Aaron also the same tyme.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Moreover the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him; and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
King James Version (1611)
And the Lord was very angry with Aaron, to haue destroyed him: And I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he was angry with Aaron to destroy him utterly, and I prayed for Aaron also at that time.
English Revised Version
And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
Berean Standard Bible
The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also the Lord was wrooth greteli ayens Aaron, and wolde alto breke hym, and Y preiede in lijk maner for hym.
Young's Literal Translation
`And with Aaron hath Jehovah shewed himself very angry, to destroy him, and I pray also for Aaron at that time;
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
World English Bible
Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
New King James Version
And the LORD was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
New Living Translation
The Lord was so angry with Aaron that he wanted to destroy him, too. But I prayed for Aaron, and the Lord spared him.
New Life Bible
The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. So I prayed for Aaron at the same time also.
New Revised Standard
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.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And with Aaron, did Yahweh show himself exceedingly angry, to destroy him, - so I prostrated myself, even in behalf of Aaron at that time.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he was exceeding angry against Aaron also, and would have destroyed him, and I prayed in like manner for him.
Revised Standard Version
And the LORD was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him; and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.

Contextual Overview

7 Remember, don't forget, how you made Adonai your God angry in the desert. From the day you left the land of Egypt till you arrived at this place, you have been rebelling against Adonai . 8 Also in Horev you made Adonai angry — Adonai was angry enough with you to destroy you! 9 I had gone up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets on which was written the covenant Adonai had made with you. I stayed on the mountain forty days and nights without eating food or drinking water. 10 Then Adonai gave me the two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God; and on them was written every word Adonai had said to you from the fire on the mountain the day of the assembly. 11 Yes, after forty days and nights Adonai gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant. 12 Then Adonai said to me, ‘Get up, and hurry down from here, because your people, whom you led out of Egypt, have become corrupt. So quickly have they turned aside from the way I ordered them to follow! They have made themselves a metal image!' 13 Moreover, Adonai said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and what a stiffnecked people they are! 14 Let me alone, so that I can put an end to them and blot out their name from under heaven! I will make out of you a nation bigger and stronger than they.' 15 I came down from the mountain. The mountain was blazing fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 I looked, and there, you had sinned against Adonai your God! You had made yourselves a metal calf, you had turned aside quickly from the way Adonai had ordered you to follow.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 32:2-5, Exodus 32:21, Exodus 32:35, Hebrews 7:26-28

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:25 - Aaron Numbers 11:2 - prayed Numbers 21:7 - And Moses 1 Kings 11:9 - angry Job 42:10 - when Psalms 99:8 - though Ecclesiastes 4:10 - if

Cross-References

Genesis 3:23
therefore Adonai , God, sent him out of the garden of ‘Eden to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.
Genesis 4:2
In addition she gave birth to his brother Hevel. Hevel kept sheep, while Kayin worked the soil.
Genesis 5:29
whom he called Noach [restful]; for he said, "This one will comfort us in our labor, in the hard work we do with our hands [to get what comes] from the ground that Adonai cursed."
Genesis 9:18
(vi) The sons of Noach who went out from the ark were Shem, Ham and Yefet. Ham is the father of Kena‘an.
Genesis 9:19
These three were the sons of Noach, and the whole earth was populated by them.
Genesis 9:24
When Noach awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him.
Genesis 9:26
Then he said, "Blessed be Adonai , the God of Shem; Kena‘an will be their servant.
Deuteronomy 20:6
"‘Is there a man here who has planted a vineyard, but hasn't yet made use of its fruit? He should go back home; otherwise he may die fighting, and another man will use it.
Deuteronomy 28:30
You will get engaged to a woman, but another man will marry her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not use its fruit.
Proverbs 10:11
The speech of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the speech of the wicked is a cover for violence.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord was very angry with Aaron, to have destroyed him,.... For complying with the request of the people in making a calf for them, and for that miserable shift he made to excuse himself; which so provoked the Lord, that he threatened to destroy him, and he was in danger of being cut off, had it not been for the intercession of Moses:

and I prayed for Aaron also the same time: who either was included in the general prayer for the people, Exodus 32:31 or a particular prayer was made for him, though not recorded, and which also succeeded.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Israel could not even boast that its heads and representatives continued, faithful. Aaron had been already designated for the high priestly functions; but he fell away with the rest of the people. It was due therefore solely to the grace of God and the intercession of Moses that Aaron himself and his promised priesthood with him were not cut off; just as at a later time, when Aaron had actually to die for a new sin Israel owed it still to the same causes that Eleazar was substituted and the High Priesthood perpetuated (compare Deuteronomy 10:6; Numbers 20:24-26).


 
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