Deuteronomy 9:15
Good News Translation
"So I turned and went down the mountain, carrying the two stone tablets on which the covenant was written. Flames of fire were coming from the mountain.

New Revised Standard Version
So I turned and went down from the mountain, while the mountain was ablaze; the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

Contemporary English Version
Fire was raging on the mountaintop as I went back down, carrying the two stones with the commandments on them.

New American Bible
When I had come down again from the blazing, fiery mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in both my hands,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the two tables of the covenant with both hands,

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And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the two tables of the covenant with both hands,

I turned

Exodus 32:14,15 And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had spoken against his people. . . .

the mount

Deuteronomy 4:11 And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto heaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it.

Deuteronomy 5:23 But you, after you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, and saw the mountain burn, came to me, all the princes of the tribes and the elders, and you said:

Exodus 9:23 And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightnings running along the ground: and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

Exodus 19:18 And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.

Context
The Golden Calf
14Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger than this. 15And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the two tables of the covenant with both hands,16And saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made to yourselves a molten calf, and had quickly forsaken his way, which he had shewn you:…
Cross References
Exodus 32:15
And Moses returned from the mount, carrying the two tables of the testimony in his hand, written on both sides,

Deuteronomy 9:16
And saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made to yourselves a molten calf, and had quickly forsaken his way, which he had shewn you:

Deuteronomy 9:14
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