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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2a 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?’ |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Know therefore today that he who goes over before you as a consuming fire is the LORD your God. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has promised you. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4“Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,’ whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6“Know, therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Even at Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the LORD had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And at the end of forty days and forty nights the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Then the LORD said to me, ‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.’ |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13“Furthermore, the LORD said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Let 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15So 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. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourselves a golden calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Then I lay prostrate before the LORD as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure that the LORD bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20And the LORD was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Then I took the sinful thing, the calf that you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22“At Taberah also, and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23And when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God and did not believe him or obey his voice. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25“So I lay prostrate before the LORD for these forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said he would destroy you. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26And I prayed to the LORD, ‘O Lord GOD, do not destroy your people and your heritage, whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin, |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28lest the land from which you brought us say, “Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.” |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.’ |
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