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Overlook the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/deuteronomy/9.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Please overlook the stubbornness and the awful sin of these people, and remember instead your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/deuteronomy/9.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/9.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/9.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/deuteronomy/9.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/deuteronomy/9.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not turn Your attention to the stubbornness of this people, or to their wickedness, or their sin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/9.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8216Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or their sin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/deuteronomy/9.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />‘Remember Thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or their sin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/deuteronomy/9.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stiff-<i>neck</i> of this people or at their wickedness or their sin,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/deuteronomy/9.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Remember [with compassion] Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or at their sin,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/deuteronomy/9.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Disregard this people’s stubbornness, and their wickedness and sin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/deuteronomy/9.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Disregard this people&#8217s stubbornness, and their wickedness and sin. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/deuteronomy/9.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/deuteronomy/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Israel's ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob obeyed you faithfully. Think about them, and not about Israel's stubbornness, evil, and sin. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/deuteronomy/9.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/deuteronomy/9.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Disregard the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of these people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/deuteronomy/9.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and do not pay any attention to the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of this people. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/deuteronomy/9.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don't pay attention to the stubbornness, wickedness, and sinfulness of this people. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/deuteronomy/9.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/deuteronomy/9.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; ignore the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of these people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/deuteronomy/9.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/deuteronomy/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/deuteronomy/9.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin, <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/deuteronomy/9.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />be mindful of Your servants, of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob; do not turn to the stiffness of this people, and to its wickedness, and to its sin,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/deuteronomy/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> be mindful of Thy servants, of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, turn not unto the stiffness of this people, and unto its wickedness, and unto its sin;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/deuteronomy/9.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Remember thy servants, for Abraham, for Isaak, and for Jacob, thou wilt not look to the stubbornness of this people, and to its wickedness, and to its sin:<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/deuteronomy/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: look not on the stubbornness of this people, nor on their wickedness and sin: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/deuteronomy/9.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look upon the stubbornness of this people, nor upon their wickedness and sinfulness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/deuteronomy/9.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look upon the stubbornness of this people nor upon their wickedness and sin,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/deuteronomy/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; pay no attention to the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin,<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/deuteronomy/9.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />But remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; look not to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sins;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/deuteronomy/9.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />But remember your Servants, Abraham and Isaac and Yaquuv; do not be turned away because of the hardness of this people, and by its evil, and by its sins.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/deuteronomy/9.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Remember Thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/deuteronomy/9.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Remember Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thyself: look not upon the hardness of heart of this people, and their impieties, and their sins.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/deuteronomy/9-27.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IRhBtZaVxJ0?start=2974" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/9.htm">The Golden Calf</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">26</span>And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. <span class="reftext">27</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/2142.htm" title="2142: zə·ḵōr (V-Qal-Imp-ms) -- Remember. A primitive root; properly, to mark, i.e. To remember; by implication, to mention; also to be male.">Remember</a> <a href="/hebrew/5650.htm" title="5650: la·‘ă·ḇā·ḏe·ḵā (Prep-l:: N-mpc:: 2ms) -- Slave, servant. From abad; a servant.">Your servants</a> <a href="/hebrew/85.htm" title="85: lə·’aḇ·rā·hām (Prep-l:: N-proper-ms) -- Contracted from 'ab and an unused root; father of a multitude; Abraham, the later name of Abram.">Abraham,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3327.htm" title="3327: lə·yiṣ·ḥāq (Prep-l:: N-proper-ms) -- He laughs, son of Abraham and Sarah. From tsachaq; laughter; Jitschak, son of Abraham.">Isaac,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3290.htm" title="3290: ū·lə·ya·‘ă·qōḇ (Conj-w, Prep-l:: N-proper-ms) -- A son of Isaac, also his desc. From aqab; heel-catcher; Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch.">and Jacob.</a> <a href="/hebrew/408.htm" title="408: ’al- (Adv) -- Not (a subjective neg.). A negative particle; not; once as a noun, nothing.">Overlook</a> <a href="/hebrew/6437.htm" title="6437: tê·p̄en (V-Qal-Imperf.Jus-2ms) -- To turn. A primitive root; to turn; by implication, to face, i.e. Appear, look, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/7190.htm" title="7190: qə·šî (N-msc) -- Stubbornness. From qashah; obstinacy.">the stubbornness</a> <a href="/hebrew/2088.htm" title="2088: haz·zeh (Art:: Pro-ms) -- This, here. A primitive word; the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that.">of this</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: wə·’el- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- To, into, towards. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/5971.htm" title="5971: hā·‘ām (Art:: N-ms) -- From amam; a people; specifically, a tribe; hence troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock.">people</a> <a href="/hebrew/7562.htm" title="7562: riš·‘ōw (N-msc:: 3ms) -- Wickedness. From rasha'; a wrong.">and the wickedness</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: wə·’el- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- To, into, towards. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/2403.htm" title="2403: ḥaṭ·ṭā·ṯōw (N-fsc:: 3ms) -- Or chattacth; from chata'; an offence, and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also an offender.">of their sin.</a> </span><span class="reftext">28</span>Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/32-13.htm">Exodus 32:13</a></span><br />Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/22-15.htm">Genesis 22:15-18</a></span><br />And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time, / saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son, / I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/26-3.htm">Genesis 26:3-5</a></span><br />Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham. / I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, / because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/28-13.htm">Genesis 28:13-15</a></span><br />And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie. / Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. / Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/105-8.htm">Psalm 105:8-11</a></span><br />He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations— / the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac. / He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant: ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/9-7.htm">Nehemiah 9:7-8</a></span><br />You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham. / You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_chronicles/16-15.htm">1 Chronicles 16:15-18</a></span><br />Remember His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations— / the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac. / He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant: ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/7-20.htm">Micah 7:20</a></span><br />You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/6-13.htm">Hebrews 6:13-18</a></span><br />When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself, / saying, “I will surely bless you and multiply your descendants.” / And so Abraham, after waiting patiently, obtained the promise. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/1-72.htm">Luke 1:72-73</a></span><br />to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant, / the oath He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/3-25.htm">Acts 3:25</a></span><br />And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/11-28.htm">Romans 11:28-29</a></span><br />Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs. / For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/3-16.htm">Galatians 3:16</a></span><br />The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/3-29.htm">Galatians 3:29</a></span><br />And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/4-13.htm">Romans 4:13</a></span><br />For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:</p><p class="hdg">Remember</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/3-6.htm">Exodus 3:6,16</a></b></br> Moreover he said, I <i>am</i> the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/6-3.htm">Exodus 6:3-8</a></b></br> And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by <i>the name of</i> God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/13-5.htm">Exodus 13:5</a></b></br> And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.</p><p class="hdg">look not</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/32-31.htm">Exodus 32:31,32</a></b></br> And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/25-25.htm">1 Samuel 25:25</a></b></br> Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, <i>even</i> Nabal: for as his name <i>is</i>, so <i>is</i> he; Nabal <i>is</i> his name, and folly <i>is</i> with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/78-8.htm">Psalm 78:8</a></b></br> And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation <i>that</i> set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/deuteronomy/9-5.htm">Abraham</a> <a href="/revelation/18-5.htm">Evil-Doing</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/2-30.htm">Hard</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/9-10.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/9-5.htm">Isaac</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/9-5.htm">Jacob</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/8-5.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/revelation/22-9.htm">Mindful</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-10.htm">Overlook</a> <a href="/numbers/18-10.htm">Regard</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/9-7.htm">Remember</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/8-19.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/9-21.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/mark/10-5.htm">Stiffness</a> <a href="/romans/2-5.htm">Stubbornness</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/9-15.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/9-5.htm">Wickedness</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/deuteronomy/29-13.htm">Abraham</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-19.htm">Evil-Doing</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/10-3.htm">Hard</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/10-12.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/29-13.htm">Isaac</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/29-13.htm">Jacob</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/15-15.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/16-15.htm">Mindful</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/24-19.htm">Overlook</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/10-17.htm">Regard</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/11-2.htm">Remember</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/11-16.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/15-9.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/matthew/19-8.htm">Stiffness</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/29-19.htm">Stubbornness</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/10-5.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/13-11.htm">Wickedness</a><div class="vheading2">Deuteronomy 9</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-1.htm">Moses dissuades them from the opinion of their own righteousness</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-7.htm">Moses reminds them of the golden calf</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are central figures in the history of Israel, representing the foundation of God's chosen people. The invocation of their names is a reminder of the unconditional promises God made to them, including the promise of land, descendants, and blessing to all nations (<a href="/genesis/12.htm">Genesis 12:1-3</a>, <a href="/genesis/26-3.htm">Genesis 26:3-4</a>, <a href="/genesis/28-13.htm">Genesis 28:13-14</a>). This appeal to the patriarchs underscores the continuity of God's faithfulness across generations, despite the people's current disobedience. It also highlights the importance of intercessory prayer, as Moses pleads with God to remember His covenant, much like how Jesus intercedes for believers (<a href="/hebrews/7-25.htm">Hebrews 7:25</a>).<p><b>Overlook the stubbornness of this people</b><br>The term "stubbornness" refers to the Israelites' repeated resistance to God's commands and their tendency to rebel, as seen throughout their wilderness journey (<a href="/exodus/32-9.htm">Exodus 32:9</a>, <a href="/numbers/14-11.htm">Numbers 14:11</a>). This stubbornness is a recurring theme in Deuteronomy, where Moses frequently reminds the people of their rebellious nature (<a href="/deuteronomy/9-6.htm">Deuteronomy 9:6-7</a>). The request for God to overlook this stubbornness is an appeal for divine mercy and grace, recognizing that the people cannot stand on their own righteousness. This reflects the broader biblical theme of God's patience and long-suffering with His people (<a href="/psalms/103-8.htm">Psalm 103:8-10</a>).<p><b>and the wickedness of their sin.</b><br>"Wickedness" here emphasizes the moral and spiritual failures of the Israelites, which include idolatry, unbelief, and disobedience (<a href="/exodus/32.htm">Exodus 32:1-6</a>, <a href="/numbers/14.htm">Numbers 14:1-4</a>). Sin, in this context, is not just a breach of law but a breach of relationship with God. The plea for God to overlook their sin is a request for forgiveness and restoration, acknowledging that only God's grace can cover their transgressions. This foreshadows the ultimate atonement for sin through Jesus Christ, who bore the sins of humanity to reconcile them to God (<a href="/2_corinthians/5-21.htm">2 Corinthians 5:21</a>, <a href="/1_peter/2-24.htm">1 Peter 2:24</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a></b><br>The leader of the Israelites who is interceding on behalf of the people, reminding God of His covenant with the patriarchs.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/a/abraham,_isaac,_and_jacob.htm">Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob</a></b><br>The patriarchs of Israel, with whom God made significant covenants, promising land, descendants, and blessings.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_israelites.htm">The Israelites</a></b><br>The people Moses is interceding for, who have shown stubbornness and sinfulness.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_promised_land.htm">The Promised Land</a></b><br>The land God promised to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, which the Israelites are on the verge of entering.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/m/mount_sinai.htm">Mount Sinai</a></b><br>The place where Moses received the Law and where the Israelites committed the sin of the golden calf, demonstrating their stubbornness.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_power_of_intercession.htm">The Power of Intercession</a></b><br>Moses' prayer demonstrates the importance of interceding for others, reminding us to pray for those who have strayed from God's path.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_covenant_faithfulness.htm">God's Covenant Faithfulness</a></b><br>Despite human failure, God remains faithful to His promises. This encourages us to trust in His unchanging nature.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_remembrance.htm">The Importance of Remembrance</a></b><br>Moses calls God to remember His servants, teaching us to recall God's past faithfulness in our own lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/d/dealing_with_stubbornness_and_sin.htm">Dealing with Stubbornness and Sin</a></b><br>Acknowledge and confess our own stubbornness and sin, seeking God's forgiveness and transformation.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_leaders.htm">The Role of Leaders</a></b><br>Moses' leadership highlights the responsibility of leaders to advocate for their people and guide them back to God.<a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/deuteronomy/9.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(27) <span class= "bld">Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.</span>--This is found exactly in <a href="/exodus/32-13.htm" title="Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.">Exodus 32:13</a><span class= "ital">. </span>Very few of the words used by Moses in the <span class= "ital">second forty days </span>are found in Exodus. (See <a href="/exodus/34-9.htm" title="And he said, If now I have found grace in your sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray you, go among us; for it is a stiff necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.">Exodus 34:9</a>.)<p><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/deuteronomy/9-27.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Remember</span><br /><span class="heb">זְכֹר֙</span> <span class="translit">(zə·ḵōr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2142.htm">Strong's 2142: </a> </span><span class="str2">To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Your servants</span><br /><span class="heb">לַעֲבָדֶ֔יךָ</span> <span class="translit">(la·‘ă·ḇā·ḏe·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5650.htm">Strong's 5650: </a> </span><span class="str2">Slave, servant</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Abraham,</span><br /><span class="heb">לְאַבְרָהָ֥ם</span> <span class="translit">(lə·’aḇ·rā·hām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_85.htm">Strong's 85: </a> </span><span class="str2">Abraham -- 'exalted father', the father of the Jewish nation</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Isaac,</span><br /><span class="heb">לְיִצְחָ֖ק</span> <span class="translit">(lə·yiṣ·ḥāq)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3327.htm">Strong's 3327: </a> </span><span class="str2">Isaac -- 'he laughs', son of Abraham and Sarah</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and Jacob.</span><br /><span class="heb">וּֽלְיַעֲקֹ֑ב</span> <span class="translit">(ū·lə·ya·‘ă·qōḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3290.htm">Strong's 3290: </a> </span><span class="str2">Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Overlook</span><br /><span class="heb">אַל־</span> <span class="translit">(’al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_408.htm">Strong's 408: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the stubbornness</span><br /><span class="heb">קְשִׁי֙</span> <span class="translit">(qə·šî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7190.htm">Strong's 7190: </a> </span><span class="str2">Stubbornness</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of this</span><br /><span class="heb">הַזֶּ֔ה</span> <span class="translit">(haz·zeh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Pronoun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2088.htm">Strong's 2088: </a> </span><span class="str2">This, that</span><br /><br /><span class="word">people,</span><br /><span class="heb">הָעָ֣ם</span> <span class="translit">(hā·‘ām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5971.htm">Strong's 5971: </a> </span><span class="str2">A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock</span><br /><br /><span class="word">their wickedness</span><br /><span class="heb">רִשְׁע֖וֹ</span> <span class="translit">(riš·‘ōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7562.htm">Strong's 7562: </a> </span><span class="str2">Wickedness</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and sin.</span><br /><span class="heb">חַטָּאתֽוֹ׃</span> <span class="translit">(ḥaṭ·ṭā·ṯōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2403.htm">Strong's 2403: </a> </span><span class="str2">An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/deuteronomy/9-27.htm">Deuteronomy 9:27 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/deuteronomy/9-27.htm">Deuteronomy 9:27 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/deuteronomy/9-27.htm">Deuteronomy 9:27 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/9-27.htm">Deuteronomy 9:27 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/9-27.htm">Deuteronomy 9:27 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/deuteronomy/9-27.htm">Deuteronomy 9:27 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/deuteronomy/9-27.htm">Deuteronomy 9:27 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/deuteronomy/9-27.htm">Deuteronomy 9:27 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/deuteronomy/9-27.htm">Deuteronomy 9:27 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/deuteronomy/9-27.htm">Deuteronomy 9:27 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/deuteronomy/9-27.htm">OT Law: Deuteronomy 9:27 Remember your servants Abraham Isaac and Jacob (Deut. 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