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Deuteronomy 9:8
Deuteronomy 9:8 is verse 8 of Deuteronomy chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
That is, Mount Sinai, or possibly a mountain in the range containing Mount Sinai
King James Version
Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
World English Bible
Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.
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Deuteronomy 9:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
7 Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
8 At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
9 When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
10 Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 32:16The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
Psalms 106:19At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
Psalms 106:20They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.
Psalms 106:21They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,
Psalms 106:22wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.