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17 So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my two hands and smashed them before your very eyes! 18 Then, as before, I fell down before the Lord for [another] forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water, because of all the sin you had committed by doing [a]what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke Him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and [b]absolute fury which the Lord held against you, [enough divine fury] to destroy you, but the Lord listened to me that time also.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 9:18 Lit the evil, when the word “evil” (or other such word) is used with the definite article (“the evil”) without any contextual explanation, it refers to the evil of seeking salvation by some other way than that which is offered by God.
  2. Deuteronomy 9:19 Lit hot displeasure.

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