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Deuteronomy 9:16

American Standard Version

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

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Deuteronomy 9:16 in other translations

I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which Yahweh had commanded you.

Deuteronomy 9:16 · World English Bible

Deuteronomy 9:16 in context

  1. 14let 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. 15So 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.
  3. 16And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against Jehovah your God; ye had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah had commanded you.
  4. 17And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
  5. 18And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.