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1 Hear, Oh Israel: You are to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
3 Understand therefore this day, that Jehovah your God is he which goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before your face: so shall you drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as Jehovah has said to you.
4 Don't speak in your mind, after that Jehovah your God has cast them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness Jehovah has brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah does drive them out from before you.
5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your mind, do you go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which Jehovah swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Understand therefore, that Jehovah your God gives you not this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
7 Remember, and forget not, how you provoked Jehovah your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you did depart out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Jehovah.
8 Also in Horeb you provoked Jehovah to wrath, so that Jehovah 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 Jehovah made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
10 And Jehovah delivered to me two tables 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 mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11 At the end of forty days and forty nights, that Jehovah gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
12 And Jehovah said to me, Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people which you have 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 Jehovah spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, it is a stiff-necked people:
14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of you 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, you had sinned against Jehovah your God, and had made you a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah had commanded you.
17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
18 And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which you sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger.
19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Jehovah was angry against you to destroy you. But Jehovah listened to me at that time also.
20 And Jehovah 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 you 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 into the brook that descended out of the mount.
22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, you provoked Jehovah to wrath.
23 Likewise when Jehovah sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God, and you did not believe Him, nor listened to his voice.
24 you have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you.
25 Thus I fell down before Jehovah forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because Jehovah had said he would destroy you.
26 I prayed therefore to Jehovah, and said, Oh Lord GOD, don't 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.
27 Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
28 lest the land from which You brought us out 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 slay them in the wilderness.
29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your mighty power and by your stretched out arm.