Deuteronomy 9:17
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
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Gill's Exposition
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands,.... In wrath and indignation at the sin they were guilty of:
and brake them before your eyes; as an emblem of their breach of them by…
That they might have no pretence to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness, Moses here shows them what a miracle of mercy it was that they had not long ere this been destroyed…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Vivid variation and expansion of Exo 32:19 b: and Moses" anger waxed hot and he cast the tables out of his hands and brake them beneath the mount.