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the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Literal Standard Version

Deuteronomy 9:20

And YHWH has showed Himself very angry with Aaron, to destroy him, and I also pray for Aaron at that 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.
Complete Jewish Bible
In addition, Adonai was very angry with Aharon and would have destroyed him; but I prayed for Aharon also 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

7Remember [and] do not forget that [with] which you have made your God YHWH angry in the wilderness; from the day that you have come out of the land of Egypt until your coming to this place, you have been rebellious against YHWH; 8even in Horeb you have made YHWH angry, and YHWH shows Himself angry against you—to destroy you. 9In my going up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone (tablets of the covenant which YHWH has made with you), then I abide on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I have not eaten bread and I have not drunk water; 10and YHWH gives to me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them [is] according to all the words which YHWH has spoken with you on the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly. 11And it comes to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, YHWH has given the two tablets of stone to me—tablets of the covenant. 12Then YHWH says to me, Rise, go down, hurry from here, for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have done corruptly; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I have commanded them—they have made a molten thing for themselves! 13And YHWH speaks to me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it [is] a people stiff of neck. 14Desist from Me, and I destroy them, and blot out their name from under the heavens, and I make you become a nation more mighty and numerous than it. 15And I turn and come down from the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant [are] on my two hands, 16and I see, and behold, you have sinned against your God YHWH; you have made a molten calf for yourselves; you have quickly turned aside from the way which YHWH has commanded you.

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
YHWH God sends him forth from the Garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he has been taken;
Genesis 4:2
and she adds to bear his brother, even Abel. And Abel is feeding a flock, and Cain has been servant of the ground.
Genesis 5:29
and calls his name Noah, saying, "This [one] comforts us concerning our work, and concerning the labor of our hands, because of the ground which YHWH has cursed."
Genesis 9:18
And the sons of Noah who are going out of the ark are Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is father of Canaan.
Genesis 9:19
These three [are] sons of Noah, and from these has all the earth been overspread.
Genesis 9:24
And Noah awakens from his wine, and knows that which his young son has done to him,
Genesis 9:26
And he says: "Blessed of my God YHWH [is] Shem, || And Canaan is servant to him.
Deuteronomy 20:6
And who [is] the man that has planted a vineyard and has not made it common? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man make it common.
Deuteronomy 28:30
You betroth a woman, and another man lies with her; you build a house, and do not dwell in it; you plant a vineyard, and do not make it common;
Proverbs 10:11
A fountain of life [is] the mouth of the righteous, || And the mouth of the wicked covers 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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