Deuteronomy 9:17
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New International Version (©2011)
So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So I took the stone tablets and threw them to the ground, smashing them before your eyes.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands and smashed them before your eyes.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So I grabbed the two tablets and then threw them out of my hands, breaking them before your eyes.

NET Bible (©2006)
I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down, and shattered them before your very eyes.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I took the two tablets, threw them down, and smashed them in front of you.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

American King James Version
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

American Standard Version
And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I cast the tables out of my hands, and broke them in your sight.

Darby Bible Translation
And I seized the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

English Revised Version
And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

World English Bible
I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

Young's Literal Translation
'And I lay hold on the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and break them before your eyes,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

9:7-29 That the Israelites might have no pretence to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness, Moses shows what a miracle of mercy it was, that they had not been destroyed in the wilderness. It is good for us often to remember against ourselves, with sorrow and shame, our former sins; that we may see how much we are indebted to free grace, and may humbly own that we never merited any thing but wrath and the curse at God's hand. For so strong is our propensity to pride, that it will creep in under one pretence or another. We are ready to fancy that our righteousness has got for us the special favour of the Lord, though in reality our wickedness is more plain than our weakness. But when the secret history of every man's life shall be brought forth at the day of judgment, all the world will be proved guilty before God. At present, One pleads for us before the mercy-seat, who not only fasted, but died upon the cross for our sins; through whom we may approach, though self-condemned sinners, and beseech for undeserved mercy and for eternal life, as the gift of God in Him. Let us refer all the victory, all the glory, and all the praise, to Him who alone bringeth salvation.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 17. - Moses cast from him the two tables of stone on which God had inscribed the words of the Law, and broke them in pieces in the view of the people, when he came down from the mount and saw how they had turned aside from the right way, and were become idolaters. This was not the effect of a burst of indignation on his part; it was a solemn declaration that the covenant of God with his people had been nullified and broken by their sinful apostasy.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands,.... In wrath and indignation at the sin they were guilty of:

and brake them before your eyes; as an emblem of their breach of them by transgressing them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

17. I took the two tables, … and broke them before your eyes—not in the heat of intemperate passion, but in righteous indignation, from zeal to vindicate the unsullied honor of God, and by the suggestion of His Spirit to intimate that the covenant had been broken, and the people excluded from the divine favor.

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The Golden Calf
…16And I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. 18And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which you sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. …

Exodus 32:19 When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.
Deuteronomy 9:16 When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.
Deuteronomy 9:18 Then once again I fell prostrate before the LORD for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the LORD's sight and so arousing his anger.