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Deuteronomy 9:11

Old Testament Law (Torah) ASV (1901)

What does Deuteronomy 9:11 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Jehovah gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Jehovah gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
Deuteronomy 9:11 — American Standard Version

Context — Deuteronomy 9

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
8Also in Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you to destroy you.
9When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.
10And Jehovah delivered unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which Jehovah speak with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Jehovah gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
12And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
13Furthermore Jehovah spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
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.
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What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, etc.] The time of Moses’s stay in the mount, when it was just up, and not before: that the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant, as in (<050909>Deuteronomy 9:9). Aben Ezra observes, that this shows that the day the tables were given to Moses the calf was made.”
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“the tables of the covenant: Deu 9:9; Num 10:33; Heb 8:6-10, Heb 9:4 Deuteronomy 9:12”
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