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Deuteronomy 9:16

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And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.

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  1. Deuteronomy 9:14

    Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

  2. Deuteronomy 9:15

    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.

  3. Deuteronomy 9:17

    And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

  4. Deuteronomy 9:18

    And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

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