Deuteronomychapter 9
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Original Language
Deuteronomy 9— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Deuteronomy 9. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
The reading
Weekly portion 46 of 54
עֵקֶב Eikev, Deuteronomy 7:12 to 11:25
Read with it: Isaiah 49:14 to 51:3.
The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
2 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 2 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Not for your righteousness1
Deuteronomy 9:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
The calf, the broken tables, the ground powder7
Deuteronomy 9:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 9:11
AT THE END. 8 Hebrew, mi-ketz. At the end or the beginning of the fortieth day. 9 According to I.E.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004
Deuteronomy 9:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ramban on Deuteronomy 9:17
This is also meant to be part of the chastisements. He is saying: “your sin was greater than could be borne, 138 See Genesis:13. to the point that when I saw you being merry before the calf I could not restrain [my anger] and I broke the Tablets.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
Deuteronomy 9:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:19· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:20· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:21· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rebellious from the day he knew you22
Deuteronomy 9:22· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:23· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:24· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Forty days and forty nights on his face25
Deuteronomy 9:25· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:26· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:27· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:28· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 9:29· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
