Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.
Parallel translations
- KJV Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
- BSB At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
- ESV Even at Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you.
- NKJV Also in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.
- NASB Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to anger, and the Lord was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you.
- NLT Even at Mount Sinai you made the Lord so angry he was ready to destroy you.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Ps 106:19–22They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.
- Exod 32:16The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
- Exod 32:7–10Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!
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