Verse 12

Deuteronomy 9:12

GOD'S WORD Translation

12 Yahweh said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֵלַ֗/י ק֣וּם רֵ֤ד מַהֵר֙ מִ/זֶּ֔ה כִּ֚י שִׁחֵ֣ת עַמְּ/ךָ֔ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הוֹצֵ֖אתָ מִ/מִּצְרָ֑יִם סָ֣רוּ מַהֵ֗ר מִן הַ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר צִוִּיתִ֔/ם עָשׂ֥וּ לָ/הֶ֖ם מַסֵּכָֽה
English Translation
And the LORD said to me, "Get up, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten image."
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Chapter 9 Context
1 Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and migh... Focus ↗
2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who... Focus ↗
3 Know therefore today, that Yahweh your God (Elohim) is he who goes over before you as a devouring fi... Focus ↗
4 Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God (Elohim) has thrust them out from before you, saying,... Focus ↗
5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land... Focus ↗
6 Know therefore, that Yahweh your God (Elohim) doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your ri... Focus ↗
7 Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God (Elohim) to wrath in the wilderness. Fr... Focus ↗
8 Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you. Focus ↗
9 When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant... Focus ↗
10 Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God (Elohim)’s finger. On them were all th... Focus ↗
11 It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets... Focus ↗
12 Yahweh said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of...
13 Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked p... Focus ↗
14 Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make... Focus ↗
15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets... Focus ↗
16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God (Elohim). You had made yourselves a mol... Focus ↗
17 I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.... Focus ↗
18 I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor dra... Focus ↗
19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy... Focus ↗
20 Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. Focus ↗
21 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it v... Focus ↗
22 At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath. Focus ↗
23 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,... Focus ↗
24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you. Focus ↗
25 So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had sa... Focus ↗
26 I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance, that you... Focus ↗
27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, no... Focus ↗
28 lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land... Focus ↗
29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your... Focus ↗