Deuteronomy 9 — Dead Sea Scrolls
3 attestation entries • 0 variants • 4QDeut family
Manuscript Overview
Summary
Deuteronomy 9 recounts the rebellion at Horeb, the golden calf, and Moses' intercession. Multiple Qumran scrolls attest portions: 4QDeutᵍ preserves vv. 12–18, 4QDeutᶠ contains broader runs of chs 9–10. 1QDeutᵇ attests v. 10 (the tablets written 'with the finger of God').
Notable Variants
No significant content variants. The 'finger of God' language and the intercession passages all track MT.
Manuscripts
4QDeutᶠ (4Q33), 4QDeutᵍ (4Q34), 4QDeutʰ (4Q35), 1QDeutᵇ (1Q5)
Scroll Condition
Fragmentary; 4QDeutᵍ provides the cleanest readings of the central calf-rebuke section.
The LORD gave me the two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from within the fire on the day of the assembly.
'Tablets of stone written with the finger of God' tracks MT.
1QDeutᵇ frag.
Then the LORD said to me, 'Get up! Go down from here quickly, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have already turned aside from the path I commanded them and have made themselves a cast idol.'
The 'go down quickly' divine command tracks MT.
4QDeutᵍ frag. 1
Then I threw myself down before the LORD as before — forty days and forty nights without eating food or drinking water — because of all your sin in doing what was evil in the LORD's sight and provoking Him.
The forty-day fast/intercession is preserved; tracks MT.
4QDeutᵍ frag. 1