King James VersionDeuteronomy9

Deuteronomy

1 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.