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Deuteronomy 9:8-10
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Deuteronomy 9:8-10
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8 At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you. 9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there[a] forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing. 10 The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger[b] of God, and on them was everything[c] he[d] said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.
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- Deuteronomy 9:9 tn Heb “in the mountain.” The demonstrative pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.
- Deuteronomy 9:10 sn The very finger of God. This is a double figure of speech (1) in which God is ascribed human features (anthropomorphism) and (2) in which a part stands for the whole (synecdoche). That is, God, as Spirit, has no literal finger nor, if he had, would he write with his finger. Rather, the sense is that God himself—not Moses in any way—was responsible for the composition of the Ten Commandments (cf. Exod 31:18; 32:16; 34:1).
- Deuteronomy 9:10 tn Heb “according to all the words.”
- Deuteronomy 9:10 tn Heb “the Lord” (likewise at the beginning of vv. 12, 13). See note on “he” in 9:3.
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