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DEUTERONOMY ยท Chapter 9
9:1 Hear, O Israel: You are to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to
possess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fenced
up to heaven,
9:2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom you
know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the children
of Anak!
9:3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he which
goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he
shall bring them down before your face: so shall you drive them out, and
destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said unto you.
9:4 Speak not you in your heart, after that the LORD your God has cast
them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness the LORD has brought
me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the
LORD does drive them out from before you.
9:5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart,
do you go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations
the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may
perform the word which the LORD swore unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob.
9:6 Understand therefore, that the LORD your God gives you not this
good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stubborn
people.
9:7 Remember, and forget not, how you provoked the LORD your God to
wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you did depart out of the land
of Egypt, until all of you came unto this place, all of you have been rebellious
against the LORD.
9:8 Also in Horeb all of you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the
LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
9:9 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:
9:10 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 spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire
in the day of the assembly.
9:11 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.
9:12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get you down quickly from behind;
for your people which you have 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.
9:13 Furthermore the LORD spoke unto me, saying, I have seen this people,
and, behold, it is a stubborn people:
9:14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name
from under heaven: and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater
than they.
9:15 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.
9:16 And I looked, and, behold, all of you had sinned against the LORD
your God, and had made you a molten calf: all of you had turned aside quickly
out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
9:17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands,
and brake them before your eyes.
9:18 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 all of you sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the
LORD, to provoke him to anger.
9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the
LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto
me at that time also.
9:20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him:
and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
9:21 And I took your sin, the calf which all of you 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.
9:22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, all of
you provoked the LORD to wrath.
9:23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go
up and possess the land which I have given you; then all of you rebelled
against the commandment of the LORD your God, and all of you believed him
not, nor hearkened to his voice.
9:24 All of you have been rebellious against the LORD from the day
that I knew you.
9:25 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.
9:26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy
not your people and your inheritance, which you have redeemed through your
greatness, which you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
9:27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto
the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their
sin:
9:28 Lest the land whence you brought 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 has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
9:29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought
out by your mighty power and by your stretched out arm.
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