9 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.