Deuteronomy 9:13

THE MESSAGE

God said, "I look at this people and all I see are hardheaded, hardhearted rebels. Get out of my way now so I can destroy them. I'm going to wipe them off the face of the map. Then I'll start over with you to make a nation far better and bigger than they could ever be."

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people:

King James Version
Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and look! They are a stubborn people.

English Standard Version
"Furthermore, the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people.

New Century Version
The Lord said to me, "I have watched these people, and they are very stubborn!

New English Translation
Moreover, he said to me, "I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn lot!

Amplified Bible
"Furthermore, the LORD said to me, 'I have seen this people, and indeed, they are stiff-necked (stubborn, obstinate) people.

New American Standard Bible
"The LORD also said to me, 'I have seen this people, and indeed, it is a stubborn people.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Furthermore, the Lord spake vnto me, saying, I haue seene this people, and beholde, it is a stifnecked people.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh spoke further to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stiff-necked people.

Contemporary English Version
I've been watching the Israelites, and I've seen how stubborn and rebellious they are.

Complete Jewish Bible
Moreover, Adonai said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and what a stiffnecked people they are!

Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

Easy-to-Read Version
"The Lord also said to me, ‘I have watched these people. They are very stubborn!

George Lamsa Translation
Furthermore the LORD said to me, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

Good News Translation
"The Lord also said to me, ‘I know how stubborn these people are.

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord also said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stiff-necked people.

Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE saide vnto me: I se this people, that it is a styffnecked people:

American Standard Version
Furthermore Jehovah spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

Bible in Basic English
And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Furthermore, the Lorde spake vnto me, saying: I haue seene this people, and beholde it is a stifnecked people.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Furthermore the LORD spoke unto me, saying: 'I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people;

King James Version (1611)
Furthermore, the Lord spake vnto me, saying, I haue seene this people, and behold, it is a stifnecked people.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.

English Revised Version
Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD also said to me, "I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stiff-necked people.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And eft the Lord seide to me, `Y se that this puple is of hard nol;

Young's Literal Translation
`And Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and lo, a people stiff of neck it [is];

Update Bible Version
Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, look, it is a stiff-necked people:

Webster's Bible Translation
Furthermore, the LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it [is] a stiff-necked people:

World English Bible
Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people:

New King James Version
"Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, "I have seen this people, and indeed they are a stiff-necked people.

New Living Translation
"The Lord also said to me, ‘I have seen how stubborn and rebellious these people are.

New Life Bible
And the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen these people. See, they are strong-willed.

New Revised Standard
Furthermore the Lord said to me, "I have seen that this people is indeed a stubborn people.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh spake unto me saying, - I have looked on this people, and lo! a stiff-necked people, it is.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And again the Lord said to me: I see that this people is stiffnecked:

Revised Standard Version
"Furthermore the LORD said to me, 'I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The LORD spoke further to me, saying, 'I have seen this people, and indeed, it is a stubborn people.

Contextual Overview

¹¹It was at the end of the forty days and nights that God gave me the two slabs of stone, the tablets of the covenant. God said to me, "Get going, and quickly. Get down there, because your people whom you led out of Egypt have ruined everything. In almost no time at all they have left the road that I laid out for them and gone off and made for themselves a cast god." ¹³ God said, "I look at this people and all I see are hardheaded, hardhearted rebels. Get out of my way now so I can destroy them. I'm going to wipe them off the face of the map. Then I'll start over with you to make a nation far better and bigger than they could ever be." ¹⁵I turned around and started down the mountain—by now the mountain was blazing with fire—carrying the two tablets of the covenant in my two arms. That's when I saw it: There you were, sinning against God , your God—you had made yourselves a cast god in the shape of a calf! So soon you had left the road that God had commanded you to walk on. I held the two stone slabs high and threw them down, smashing them to bits as you watched. ¹⁸Then I prostrated myself before God , just as I had at the beginning of the forty days and nights. I ate no food; I drank no water. I did this because of you, all your sins, sinning against God , doing what is evil in God 's eyes and making him angry. I was terrified of God 's furious anger, his blazing anger. I was sure he would destroy you. But once again God listened to me. And Aaron! How furious he was with Aaron—ready to destroy him. But I prayed also for Aaron at that same time. ²¹ But that sin-thing that you made, that calf-god, I took and burned in the fire, pounded and ground it until it was crushed into a fine powder, then threw it into the stream that comes down the mountain. ²² And then there was Camp Taberah (Blaze), Massah (Testing-Place), and Camp Kibroth Hattaavah (Graves-of-the-Craving)—more occasions when you made God furious with you. ²³The most recent was when God sent you out from Kadesh Barnea, ordering you: "Go. Possess the land that I'm giving you." And what did you do? You rebelled. Rebelled against the clear orders of God , your God. Refused to trust him. Wouldn't obey him. You've been rebels against God from the first day I knew you. ²⁵When I was on my face, prostrate before God those forty days and nights after God said he would destroy you, I prayed to God for you, "My Master, God , don't destroy your people, your inheritance whom, in your immense generosity, you redeemed, using your enormous strength to get them out of Egypt. ²⁷"Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don't make too much of the stubbornness of this people, their evil and their sin, lest the Egyptians from whom you rescued them say, ‘ God couldn't do it; he got tired and wasn't able to take them to the land he promised them. He ended up hating them and dumped them in the wilderness to die.' ²⁹ "They are your people still, your inheritance whom you powerfully and sovereignly rescued."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I have: Genesis 11:5, Genesis 18:21, Exodus 32:9, Exodus 32:10, Psalms 50:7, Jeremiah 7:11, Jeremiah 13:27, Hosea 6:10, Malachi 3:5

stiffnecked: Deuteronomy 9:6, Deuteronomy 10:16, Deuteronomy 31:27, 2 Kings 17:14

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 9:16 - dealt Psalms 78:8 - as their Psalms 106:23 - he said Acts 7:51 - stiffnecked Romans 10:21 - a disobedient Galatians 3:19 - in

Cross-References

Revelation 10:1
I saw another powerful Angel coming down out of Heaven wrapped in a cloud. There was a rainbow over his head, his face was sun-radiant, his legs pillars of fire. He had a small book open in his hand. He placed his right foot on the sea and his left foot on land, then called out thunderously, a lion roar. When he called out, the Seven Thunders called back. When the Seven Thunders spoke, I started to write it all down, but a voice out of Heaven stopped me, saying, "Seal with silence the Seven Thunders; don't write a word."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying,.... After he had given him the two tables, and before his departure from the mount:

I have seen this people; took notice of them, their ways, and their works:

and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people; unwilling to submit to, and bear the yoke of my commandments; see Exodus 32:9.