Deuteronomy 9:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same time.

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  • Exod 32:2-5 : 2 Then Aaron said to them, Take off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives and your sons and your daughters, and give them to me. 3 And all the people took the gold rings from their ears and gave them to Aaron. 4 And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt. 5 And when Aaron saw this, he made an altar before it, and made a public statement, saying, Tomorrow there will be a feast to the Lord.
  • Exod 32:21 : 21 And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you that you let this great sin come on them?
  • Exod 32:35 : 35 And the Lord sent punishment on the people because they gave worship to the ox which Aaron made.
  • Heb 7:26-28 : 26 It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens: 27 Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people; because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself. 28 The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.

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    15 So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands.

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    17 And I let the stones go from my hands, and they were broken before your eyes.

    18 And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.

    19 For I was full of fear because of the wrath of the Lord which was burning against you, with your destruction in view. But again the Lord's ear was open to my prayer.

  • Deut 9:21-22
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    21 And I took your sin, the image which you had made, and put it in the fire and had it hammered and crushed very small till it was only dust: and the dust I put in the stream flowing down from the mountain.

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    8 Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.

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    25 So I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for forty days and forty nights as I did at first; because the Lord had said that he would put an end to you.

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    19 And when he came near the tents he saw the image of the ox, and the people dancing; and in his wrath Moses let the stones go from his hands, and they were broken at the foot of the mountain.

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    11 But Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is your wrath burning against your people whom you took out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with the strength of your hand?

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    45 Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. And they went down on their faces.

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    10 And the Lord said to Moses,

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    7 And Moses said to Aaron, Come near to the altar and make your sin-offering and your burned offering to take away your sin and the sin of the people, and make the people's offering to take away their sin; as the Lord has given orders.

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    1 Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle.

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