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Deuteronomy 9
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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:
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- 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.
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