So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
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So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
And I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with the fire. And the two tablets of the covenant in my two hands.
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So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.
So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
So I returned, and came downe from the Mount (and the Mount burnt with fire, and ye two Tables of the couenant were in my two handes)
And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the two tables of the covenant with both hands,
`And I turn, and come down from the mount, and the mount is burning with fire, and the two tables of the covenant on my two hands,
And I turn and come down from the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant [are] on my two hands,
So I turned around and came down the mountain, and the mountain was burning. The two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.
And I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with the fire. And the two tablets of the covenant in my two hands.
And I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
I went back down the mountain while it was still on fire, carrying the two tablets of the agreement.
So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands.
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
לֻחֹ֣ת plank H3871 occurs in 33 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 28 words from the Hebrew and 29 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 20 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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וָאֵ֗פֶן וָֽאֵרֵד֙ מִן הָהָ֔ר וְהָהָ֖ר בֹּעֵ֣ר בָּאֵ֑שׁ וּשְׁנֵי֙ לֻחֹ֣ת הַבְּרִ֔ית עַ֖ל שְׁתֵּ֥י יָדָֽי
So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἐπιστρέφω καταβαίνω ἐκ ὁ ὄρος καί ὁ ὄρος καίω πῦρ καί ὁ δύο πλάξ ἐπί ὁ δύο χείρ ἐγώ
And I turned and went down from the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to heaven; and the two tables of the testimonies were in my two hands.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וְאִתְפְּנֵיתִי וּנְחָתִית מִן טוּרָא וְטּוּרָא בָּעֵר בְּאֶשָׁתָא וּתְרֵין לוּחֵי קְיָמָא עַל תַּרְתֵּין יְדָי
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וְכַוְנִית וּנְחָתִית מִן טַוְורָא וְטַוְורָא דָלֵיק בְּאֵישָׁתָא וּתְרֵין לוּחֵי קְיָימָא עַל תְּרֵין יְדָי
And I prepared and went down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were upon my two hands.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is lûwach (“plank”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Deuteronomy 9:15 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
Ramban (Nachmanides)
Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban / Nachmanides)
Ramban (Nachmanides) on the Tanakh — English translation: “Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.
Sforno
Rabbi Ovadia Sforno
Sforno on the Tanakh — English translation: “Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.