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The Book of Deuteronomy 9

9 Hear, Israel! You are crossing the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, with cities great and fortified to the heavens, 2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakites, whom you yourself know, and you yourself have heard, ‘Who can stand before the faces of the sons of Anak?’ 3 And you shall know today that Yahweh your God, he is the one who goes over before your face, a devouring fire; he himself will destroy them, and he himself will subdue them before your face. And you will drive them out and exterminate them quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.

4 You shall not say in your heart, when Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before your face, saying, ‘In my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land,’ but in the wickedness of these nations, Yahweh is driving them out from before your face. 5 Not in your righteousness or in the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but in the wickedness of these nations, Yahweh your God is driving them out from your face, and so that Yahweh may establish the word that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 6 And you shall know that not in your righteousness is Yahweh your God giving to you this good land to possess, for you are a people hard of neck.

7 Remember, you shall not forget how you provoked Yahweh your God to anger in the wilderness; from the day that you went out from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. 8 And at Horeb you provoked Yahweh to anger, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you. 9 When I went up to the mountain to take the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that Yahweh cut with you, and I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights, bread I did not eat and water I did not drink. 10 And Yahweh gave to me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God. And on them was according to all the words that Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.

11 And it happened, at the end of 40 days and 40 nights, Yahweh gave to me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. 12 And Yahweh said to me, ‘Get up, go down quickly from here, for your people, whom you brought out from Egypt, have become corrupted. They have quickly turned aside from the path that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a cast figure.’ 13 And Yahweh said to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and behold: it is a people hard of neck. 14 Leave me be, and I will destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens, and I will make you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

15 And I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with the fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made for yourselves a cast-image calf. You had quickly turned aside from the path that Yahweh had commanded you. 17 And I seized the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands. And I broke them before your eyes.

18 And I prostrated myself before the face of Yahweh as before, 40 days and 40 nights. Bread I did not eat and water I did not drink, because of all your sin that you had committed, in doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the face of the nose and the heat with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. And Yahweh listened to me also that time. 20 And Yahweh was very angry against Aaron, to destroy him. And I interceded also for the sake of Aaron at that time. 21 And I took your sin, the calf that you had made, and burned it in the fire and crushed it and ground well, until crushed to dust. And I threw its dust into the stream coming down from the mountain.

22 And at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you were provoking Yahweh to anger, 23 and when Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, ‘Go up and take possession of the land that I have given to you,’ and you rebelled against the mouth of Yahweh your God, and you did not believe him, and you did not listen to his voice.

24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day I knew you.

25 And I prostrated myself before the face of Yahweh 40 days and 40 nights, and I prostrated myself because Yahweh had said to destroy you. 26 And I prayed to Yahweh and said, ‘My Lord Yahweh, do not destroy your people and your inheritance whom you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought out from Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not turn to the hardness of this people and to their wickedness and to their sin, 28 lest the land where you brought us out from should say, “From Yahweh not being able to bring them into the land that he spoke to them, or from his hatred of them he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.” 29 And they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.’

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