Deuteronomy:9

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* Hear , O , Israel ! You [are ] to pass over Jordan today , to go in to expel nations greater and mightier than you , cities great and fenced up to heaven , * a people great and tall , the sons of the giants , whom you know and have heard it said , Who can stand before the sons of Anak ! * Therefore , understand today that the LORD your God [is ] He who goes over before you . [Like ] a consuming fire , He shall destroy them , and He shall bring them down before your face . So you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly , as the LORD has said to you . * Do not speak in your heart , after the LORD your God has cast them out from before you , saying : For my righteousness , the LORD has brought me in to possess this land . But for the wickedness of these nations , the LORD your God drives them out from before you . * Not for your righteousness , or for the uprightness of your heart , do you go to possess their land . But for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God drives them out from before you , so that He may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers , Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob . * Therefore , understand that the LORD your God does not give you this good land , to possess it , for your righteousness . For you [are ] a stiff-necked people . * Remember , [and ] do not forget , how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness . From the day you departed out of the land of Egypt , until you came to this place , you have been rebellious against the LORD . * Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath , so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you . * When I had gone up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone , the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you , then I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights . I neither ate bread nor drank water . * And the LORD delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God , and on them according to all the words which the LORD spoke with you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly . * And it happened , at the end of forty days and forty nights the LORD gave me the two tables of stone , the tablets of the covenant . * And the LORD said to me , Arise ! Get down quickly from here , for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted . They have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them . They have made them a molten image . * And the LORD spoke to me saying : I have seen this people , and , behold , it [is ] a stiff-necked people . * Let Me alone , so 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 . * So I turned and came down from the mountain , and the mountain burned with fire . And the two tables of the covenant [were ] in my two hands . * And I looked , and behold ! You had sinned against the LORD your God , and had made you a molten calf . You had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you . * And I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands and broke them before your eyes . * And I fell down before the LORD , as at the first , forty days and forty nights . I neither ate bread nor drank water , because of all your sins which you sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger . * For I was afraid of the anger and fury with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you . But the LORD listened to me at that time also . * And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him . And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time . * And I took your sin , the calf which you had made , and burned it with fire , and stamped it , grinding [it ] very small , until it was as small as dust . And I threw the dust of it into the torrent that descended out of the mountain . * And at Taberah , and at Massah , and at the Graves of Lust , you provoked the LORD to anger . * And when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea , saying : Go up and possess the land which I have given you , then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God , and you did not believe Him , nor listened to His voice . * You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you . * And I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights , that I had thrown myself down , for Jehovah had said to destroy you . * I prayed therefore to the LORD and said , O , Lord God , do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance which You have redeemed through Your greatness , which You have brought forth 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 where You bring 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 has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness . * Yet they [are ] Your people and Your inheritance which You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your stretched-out arm .

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