Deuteronomy 9:9-11 sits inside this longer paragraph.
4Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;” because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations. 5Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 6Know therefore that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people. 7Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. 8Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you. 9When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. 10Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant. 12Yahweh 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!”
Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v10 That is, miraculously, and not by the hand of…
That is, miraculously, and not by the hand of men.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv9–10 Deu 9:9 When I was gone up into the…
Deu 9:9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
Ver. 9. When I was gone up into the mount.] Sins are much aggravated by the circumstances; and every sin should swell as a toad in our eyes: we should bring them out, as they took the vessels of the temple, {Ezr 8:34} "by number and by weight." See Lev 16:21; "all their transgressions in all their sins."
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv9–10 i.e. I wholly abstained from all meat and drink.…
i.e. I wholly abstained from all meat and drink. Compare 1Ki 13:8,9,17; 2Ki 6:22.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv9–11 When I was gone up into the mount to…
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone,.... The tables of the law, the same law which forbid idolatry, and which they had lately heard from the mouth of God himself: even
the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you; which they had agreed unto, and solemnly promised they would observe and do, Exo 24:7,
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then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; and this long stay was one reason of their falling into idolatry, not knowing what was become of him, Exo 24:18.
I neither did eat bread nor drink water; all those forty days and nights, Exo 34:28.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v10 With the finger of God - Immediately and miraculously,…
With the finger of God - Immediately and miraculously, which was done not only to procure the greater reverence to the law, but also to signify, that it is the work of God alone to write this law upon the tables of men's hearts. In the day of the assembly - That is, when the people were gathered by God's command to the bottom of Mount Sinai, to hear and receive God's ten commandments from his own mouth.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v10 Verse 10. Tables of stone] See Clarke on Ex…
Verse 10. Tables of stone] See Clarke on Ex 31:18, and See Clarke on Ex 32:15; "Ex 32:16".
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v10 Deu 9:10. With the finger of God — Immediately…
Deu 9:10. With the finger of God — Immediately and miraculously, which was done not only to procure the greater reverence to the law, but also to signify that it is the work of God alone to write this law upon the table of men’s hearts. In the day of the assembly — That is, when the people were gathered by God’s command to the bottom of mount Sinai, to hear and receive God’s ten commandments from his own mouth.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On v9 9. When I was gone… to receive the tables…
9. When I was gone… to receive the tables of stone — How incisive these words of rebuke! At the time when Moses was occupied with the holiest of duties — waiting to receive the tables of the law from Jehovah’s own hand, forgetful of himself, with no thought for his bodily wants — even then the people are preparing for the worship of a golden calf! Their apostasy at such a time seems almost unaccountable.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv9–10 9. Based on Exo_24:13; Exo_24:15 a, Exo_24:18 b, E,…
9. Based on Exo_24:13; Exo_24:15 a, Exo_24:18 b, E, Exo_34:28, J, this verse omits E’s reference to the elders and Aaron, Exo_24:14, and of course has no reference to the interlaced sentences of P, id. Exo_24:15 b – Exo_24:18 a; to the tables of stone it adds even the tables of the covenant, etc. (Deu_9:11; Deu_9:15 : see Exo_4:13 and Exo_5:22 tables of stone only, and cp. Exo_5:2); the last fact, I did neither eat bread nor drink water, was either transferred by D from J’s story of Moses’ second ascent of the Mount, Exo_34:28; or was found by him in E’s story of the first ascent from which it has now disappeared. Cp. Mat_4:2.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv9–10 (9) I neither did eat bread nor drink water.—This…
(9) I neither did eat bread nor drink water.—This fact is not related in Exodus concerning the first forty days which Moses spent in Mount Sinai “with his minister Joshua.” It might be supposed or implied, but it is not recorded.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv9–10 The clause, Then I abode...water, is a parenthesis; the…
The clause, Then I abode...water, is a parenthesis; the sentence runs on from. When I was gone, etc., to Then not And the Lord delivered unto me, etc.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On v10 And the Lord
And the Lord
(See Scofield "Exo 20:4").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv9, 11 General Information:
General Information:
Moses is reminding the people of Israel what happened in the past.
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the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that Yahweh made with you
Here the second phrase clarifies that "the tablets of stone" are the ones on which God wrote the Ten Commandments. (See: Parallelism)
forty days and forty nights
"40 days and 40 nights" (See: Numbers)
on them was written everything just like all the words that Yahweh announced to you
This can be stated in active form. AT: "Yahweh wrote on them the same words he had said to you" (See: Active or Passive)
Yahweh announced ... out of the middle of the fire
It was as if Yahweh were a person standing in the middle of a fire and speaking with a loud voice.
on the day of the assembly
The abstract noun "assembly" can be expressed as the verb "gather together." AT: "on the day when you Israelites all came and met together in one place" (See: Abstract Nouns)
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covenant
bread
assembly
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv9–10 9:9 Covenant here refers to the promises God made…
9:9 Covenant here refers to the promises God made with Israel nearly forty years earlier at Sinai (see 4:13). • The common biblical expression forty days and forty nights represents trial or testing (Exod 34:28). Moses’ fast was like Jesus’ fast (Matt 4:2). It is physically possible to go without food for forty days, but a person cannot ordinarily survive without water for more than a few days. Moses was directly sustained by God (cp. Matt 4:11).
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