Nehemiah 9:16
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
In context
14 You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.
15 In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to give them.
16 But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
17 They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.
18 Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,
Nehemiah 9:16 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
- KJV King James Version
- But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
- WEB World English Bible
- “But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
- ASV American Standard Version
- But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 'And they and our fathers have acted proudly, and harden their neck, and have not hearkened unto Thy commands,
- DBY Darby Translation
- But they, our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
- WBS Webster Bible
- But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,