Deuteronomy:9

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* Hear , O Israel Yisra #el #: 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 , * 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 ! * 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 . * Speak not thou in thine heart , after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out H 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 . * 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 Ya #aqob #. * Understand therefore , that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness ; for thou art a stiffnecked #H7186people . * 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 . * Also in Horeb ye provoked # the LORD to wrath , so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you . * 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 #arba #iym # days and forty #arba #iym # nights , I neither did eat bread nor drink water : * 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 . * And it came to pass at the end of forty #arba #iym # days and forty #arba #iym # nights , that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone , even the tables of the covenant . * 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 . * Furthermore the LORD spake unto me , saying , I have seen this people , and , behold , it is a stiffnecked #H7186people : * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * And I took the two tables , and cast them out of my two hands , and brake them before your eyes . * And I fell down before the LORD , as at the first ri #shown #, forty #arba #iym # days and forty #arba #iym # 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 . * 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 . * And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him : and I prayed for Aaron also the same time . * And I took your sin chatta #ah #, 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 . * And at Taberah Tab #erah #, and at Massah , and at Kibrothhattaavah Qibrowth hat-Ta #a-vah #, ye provoked the LORD to wrath . * Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea Qadesh , 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 . * Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you . * Thus I fell down before the LORD forty #arba #iym # days and forty #arba #iym # nights , as I fell down at the first ; because the LORD had said he would destroy you . * 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 . * Remember thy servants , Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob Ya #aqob #; look not unto the stubbornness of this people , nor to their wickedness , nor to their sin chatta #ah #: * 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 . * 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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