Deuteronomy 9:21

9:21 As for your sinful thing ¹  that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ²  ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.

Deuteronomy 9:23

9:23 And when he ³  sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, “Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the Lord your God ⁴  and would neither believe nor obey him.

[9:21]  ¹ tn Heb “your sin.” This is a metonymy in which the effect (sin) stands for the cause (the metal calf).

[9:21]  ² tn Heb “burned it with fire.”

[9:23]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

[9:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord your God,” that is, against the commandment that he had spoken.