Deuteronomy 9:8
Good News Translation
Even at Mount Sinai you made the LORD angry--angry enough to destroy you.

New Revised Standard Version
Even at Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you.

Contemporary English Version
At Mount Sinai you made the LORD so angry that he was going to destroy you.

New American Bible
At Horeb you so provoked the LORD that he was angry enough to destroy you,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For in Horeb, also thou didst provoke him, and he was angry, and would have destroyed thee,

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For in Horeb, also thou didst provoke him, and he was angry, and would have destroyed thee,

Also in Horeb.

Exodus 32:16 And made by the work of God; the writing also of God was graven in the tables.

Psalm 106:19-22 They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing. . . .

Context
The Golden Calf
7Remember, and forget not how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou camest out of Egypt unto this place, thou hast always strove against the Lord. 8For in Horeb, also thou didst provoke him, and he was angry, and would have destroyed thee,9When I went up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you: and I continued in the mount forty days and nights, neither eating bread, nor drinking water.…
Cross References
Exodus 32:7
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned.

Ezra 9:14
That we should not turn away, nor break thy commandments, nor join in marriage with the people of these abominations. Art thou angry with us unto utter destruction, not to leave us a remnant to be saved?

Psalm 106:19
They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing.

Ezekiel 20:13
But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, and would consume them.

Deuteronomy 9:7
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