Deuteronomy:9

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* Hear , O Israel , you shall cross over the Jordan today , to go in to expel nations greater and mightier than yourself , cities great and walled up to the heavens ; * a people great and tall , the sons of the Anakim , whom you know , and of whom you have heard it said , Who can stand before the sons of Anak ? * And know today that Jehovah your God is He who passes over before you as a consuming fire ; He will destroy them , and He will bring them down before you ; so you shall drive them out and make them to perish quickly , as Jehovah has spoken to you . * Do not say in your heart , when Jehovah your God has cast them out from before you , saying , Jehovah has brought me in to possess this land for my righteousness . But say , Jehovah drives them out from before you because of the wickedness of those nations . * It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you go to possess their land . But Jehovah your God is expelling them from before you because of the wickedness of these nations ; and in order to establish the word which Jehovah has sworn to your fathers , to Abraham , to Isaac , and to Jacob . * And you shall know that Jehovah your God is not giving you this good land , to possess it , for your righteousness ; for you are a stiffnecked people . * Remember ; do not forget how you made Jehovah your God angry in the wilderness ; even from the day that you came out of the land of Egypt until you came into this place you have been rebellious against Jehovah . * Even in Horeb you made Jehovah angry ; and Jehovah breathed angrily against you , to destroy you . * When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone , tablets of the covenant which Jehovah cut with you , and I remained in the mountain forty days and forty nights (I did not eat bread nor did I drink water ), * and Jehovah gave to me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God , and on them was written according to all the words which Jehovah spoke with you in the mountain , out of the midst of the fire , in the day of the assembly ; * then it happened , at the end of forty days and forty nights Jehovah gave the two tablets of stone to me , tablets of the covenant , * and Jehovah said to me , Rise up , go down quickly from here ; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly ; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them ; they have made themselves a casted image . * And Jehovah spoke to me , saying , I have seen this people , and , behold , it is a stiffnecked people . * Let Me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens ; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they . * And I turned and came down from the mountain , and the mountain was burning with fire , and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands ; * and I looked ; and , behold ! You had sinned against Jehovah your God ; you had made a casted calf for yourselves ; you had quickly turned out of the way which Jehovah had commanded you . * And I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands , and broke them before your eyes . * And I fell down before Jehovah , as at the first , forty days and forty nights ; I ate no bread and drank no water ; because of all your sins which you had sinned , in doing that which was evil in the eyes of Jehovah , to make Him angry . * For I was afraid because of the anger and the fury with which Jehovah had been angry against you , to destroy you . And Jehovah listened to me at this time also . * And Jehovah was very angry with Aaron , to destroy him , and I also prayed for Aaron at that time . * And I took your sin , the calf which you made , and I burned it with fire , and beat it , grinding it very small until it was as fine as dust ; and I threw its dust into the torrent that came down out of the mountain . * And at Taberah , and at Massah , and at The Graves of Lust you provoked Jehovah to anger . * And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea , saying , Go up and possess the land which I have given to you , then you rebelled against the mouth of Jehovah your God , and did not believe Him , nor listen to His voice . * You have been rebels against Jehovah from the day that I knew you . * And I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and the forty nights as I had thrown myself down before , for Jehovah had said to destroy you . * And I prayed to Jehovah , and said , O Lord Jehovah , do not destroy Your people , and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed in Your greatness ; whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand . * Remember Your servants , Abraham , Isaac and Jacob ; do not look to the stubbornness of this people , nor to their wickedness nor to their sin , * lest the land from which You brought us say , Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which He promised them ; and , because He hated them , He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness . * And they are Your people , and Your inheritance , whom You have brought out by Your great power , and by Your stretched out arm .

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