¶ Remember and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to anger in the wilderness: [a]since the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came into this place, ye have rebelled against the Lord.

Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to anger, so that the Lord was wroth with you, even to destroy you.

When I was gone up into the mount, to receive the Tables of stone, the Tables, I say, of the Covenant, which the Lord made with you: and (A)I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, and I neither ate bread nor yet drank water:

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 9:7 He proveth by the length of time, that their rebellion was most great and intolerable.

The Golden Calf

Remember this and never forget how you aroused the anger(A) of the Lord your God in the wilderness. From the day you left Egypt until you arrived here, you have been rebellious(B) against the Lord.(C) At Horeb you aroused the Lord’s wrath(D) so that he was angry enough to destroy you.(E) When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant(F) that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days(G) and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.(H)

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