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Deuteronomy 9:13

Old Testament Law (Torah) ASV (1901)

What does Deuteronomy 9:13 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “Furthermore Jehovah spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

Furthermore Jehovah spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Deuteronomy 9:13 — American Standard Version

Context — Deuteronomy 9

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
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.
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.
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.
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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
“Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, etc.] After he had given him the two tables, and before his departure from the mount: I have seen this people; took notice of them, their ways, and their works: and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people; unwilling to submit to, and bear the yoke of my commandments; (see <023209>Exodus 32:9).”
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“I have: Gen 11:5, Gen 18:21; Exo 32:9, Exo 32:10; Psa 50:7; Jer 7:11, Jer 13:27; Hos 6:10; Mal 3:5 stiffnecked: Deu 9:6, Deu 10:16, Deu 31:27; Kg2 17:14 Deuteronomy 9:14”
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