Deuteronomy
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,
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
9:8 Also in Horeb ye 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 spake 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 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.
9:13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people,
and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
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.
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, 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.
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 ye 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 wroth 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 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.
9:22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye 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 ye rebelled against the
commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened
to his voice.
9:24 Ye 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 thy
people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy
greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty
hand.
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:
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.
9:29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out
by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
