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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,
02 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!
03 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.
04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath,
so that the Lord was angry with you to have
destroyed you.
09 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.
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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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