DE-9:1  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,

DE-9:2  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!

DE-9:3  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.

DE-9:4  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.

DE-9:5  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.

DE-9:6  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.

DE-9:7  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.

DE-9:8  Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the

LORD was

angry with you to have destroyed you.

DE-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:

DE-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 spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in

the day of

the assembly.

DE-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.

DE-9:12  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.

DE-9:13  Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen

this people,

and, behold, it [is] a stiffnecked people:

DE-9:14  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.

DE-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.

DE-9:16  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.

DE-9:17  And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two

hands, and

brake them before your eyes.

DE-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 ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD,

 to provoke

him to anger.

DE-9:19  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.

DE-9:20  And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have

destroyed him: and I

prayed for Aaron also the same time.

DE-9:21  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.

DE-9:22  And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah,

ye provoked

the LORD to wrath.

DE-9:23  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.

DE-9:24  Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day

that I knew

you.

DE-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.

DE-9:26  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.

DE-9:27  Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look

not unto the

stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to

their sin:

DE-9:28  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.

DE-9:29  Yet they [are] thy people and thine inheritance, which

thou

broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.

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