Deuteronomy 9:12-18

9:12

Get <06965> [Arise.]

<07843> [corrupted.]

once ................. quickly <04118> [are quickly.]

9:13

<07200> [I have.]

stubborn <06203> [stiffnecked.]

9:14

Stand <07503> [Let me.]

obliterating <04229> [blot.]

make <06213> [and I will.]

9:15

turned <06437> [I turned.]

mountain ... it <02022> [the mount.]

9:16

looked <07200> [I looked.]

9:17

threw <07993 05921> [cast them.]

Moses might have done this through distress and anguish of spirit, on beholding their abominable idolatry and dissolute conduct; or probably he did it emblematically, and perhaps by the direction of God; intimating thereby, that as by this act of his the tables were broken in pieces, on which the Law of God was written, so they, by their present conduct, had made a breach in the covenant, and broken the laws of their Maker and Sovereign.

9:18

fell <05307> [I fell down.]

The transgressions of the people rendered this second forty days' fasting necessary to Moses. Their pardon was indeed in some sense obtained before he ascended the mount; yet probably much of the time which he spent there was employed in supplication: and when he descended the second time, with the tables of the law in his hands, the pardon was, as it were, ratified and sealed.