“1 Hear, O Israel: Thou [art] to pass over Jordan this day, to go in
to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and
fenced up to heaven, 2 A people great and tall, the children of the
Anakims, whom thou knowest, and [of whom] thou hast heard [say], Who can
stand before the children of Anak! 3 Understand therefore this day, that
the LORD thy God [is] he which goeth over before thee; [as] a consuming
fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy
face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the
LORD hath said unto thee. 4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that
the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my
righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for
the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before
thee. 5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine
heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of
these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and
that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God
giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for
thou [art] a stiffnecked people.”
“7 Remember, [and] forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to
wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the
land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious
against the LORD. 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that
the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you. 9 When I was gone up
into the mount to receive the tables of stone, [even] the tables of the
covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty
days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: 10 And
the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger
of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which the
LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day
of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and
forty nights, [that] the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, [even]
the tables of the covenant. 12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get
thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought
forth out of Egypt have corrupted [themselves]; they are quickly turned
aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a
molten image. 13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen
this people, and, behold, it [is] a stiffnecked people: 14 Let me alone,
that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and
I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. 15 So I
turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and
the two tables of the covenant [were] in my two hands. 16 And I looked,
and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, [and] had made you
a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD
had commanded you. 17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my
two hands, and brake them before your eyes. 18 And I fell down before
the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither
eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in
doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 19 For
I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was
wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that
time also. 20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed
him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. 21 And I took your sin,
the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it,
[and] ground [it] very small, [even] until it was as small as dust: and
I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked
the LORD to wrath. 23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea,
saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye
rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed
him not, nor hearkened to his voice. 24 Ye have been rebellious against
the LORD from the day that I knew you. 25 Thus I fell down before the
LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down [at the first]; because
the LORD had said he would destroy you. 26 I prayed therefore unto the
LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine
inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou
hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember thy
servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of
this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin: 28 Lest the land
whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to
bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated
them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. 29 Yet
they [are] thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out
by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.” (Deuteronomy 9:1-29
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