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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Deuteronomy 9 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/deuteronomy/9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/deuteronomy/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CPDV</a> > Deuteronomy 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../deuteronomy/8.htm" title="Deuteronomy 8">◄</a> Deuteronomy 9 <a href="../deuteronomy/10.htm" title="Deuteronomy 10">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/deuteronomy/9-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Assurance of Victory<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Listen, O Israel: You shall cross over the Jordan today, in order to possess nations, very great and stronger than yourself, cities vast and walled even to the sky, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>a people great and lofty, the sons of the Anakim, whom you yourselves have seen and heard, against whom no one is able to stand. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Therefore, you shall know today that the Lord your God himself will pass over before you, like a devouring and consuming fire, to crush and to wipe away and to utterly ruin them before your face, quickly, just as he has spoken to you.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You should not say in your heart, when the Lord your God will have destroyed them in your sight: ‘It is because of my justice that the Lord led me in, so that I might possess this land, while these nations have been destroyed because of their impiety.’ <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For it is not because of your justices or the uprightness of your heart that you will enter, so that you may possess their lands. Instead, it is because they have acted wickedly that they are destroyed upon your arrival, and so that the Lord may accomplish his word, which he promised under oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore, know that the Lord your God will not give you this excellent land as a possession due to your justices, for you are a very stiff-necked people.<p> <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">The Golden Calf<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../exodus/32.htm">Exodus 32:1–35</a>; <a href ="../acts/7.htm#39">Acts 7:39–43</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Remember, and never forget, how you provoked the Lord your God to anger in the wilderness. You have always contended against the Lord, from the day that you went forth from Egypt, even to this place. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For at Horeb also, you provoked him, and, becoming angry, he was willing to destroy you, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>when I ascended onto the mountain, so that I might receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord formed with you. And I persevered on the mountain for forty days and nights, neither eating bread, nor drinking water. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the Lord gave me two tablets of stone, written with the finger of God and containing all the words that he spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of fire, while the people, being stirred up, were assembled together. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And when forty days, and as many nights, had passed, the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And he said to me: ‘Rise up, and descend quickly from here. For your people, whom you led away from Egypt, have quickly abandoned the way that you have shown to them, and they have made a molten idol for themselves.’ <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And again, the Lord said to me: ‘I discern that this people is stiff-necked. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Depart from me, so that I may crush them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and appoint you over a nation, which will be greater and stronger than this one.’<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And as I was descending from the burning mountain, and I held the two tablets of the covenant with both hands, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and I had seen that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made a molten calf for yourselves, and had quickly abandoned his way, which he had revealed to you, <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I threw down the tablets from my hands, and I broke them in your sight. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And I fell prostrate before the Lord, just as before, for forty days and nights, not eating bread, and not drinking water, because of all your sins, which you had committed against the Lord, and because you provoked him to anger. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For I feared his indignation and wrath, which had been stirred up against you, so that he was willing to destroy you. And the Lord heeded me at this time also. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Likewise, he became vehemently angry against Aaron, and he was willing to destroy him, and I prayed for him similarly. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But as for your sin which you committed, that is, the calf, taking hold of it, I burned it with fire. And breaking it into pieces, and reducing it entirely to dust, I threw it into the torrent that descends from the mountain.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Likewise, at the Burning, and at the Temptation, and at the Graves of Lust, you provoked the Lord. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And when he sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Ascend and possess the land, which I have given to you,’ even so, you spurned the command of the Lord your God, and you did not believe him, nor were you willing to listen to his voice. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Instead, you were ever rebellious, from the day when I first began to know you.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And so, I lay prostrate before the Lord for forty days and nights, as I humbly begged him, lest he destroy you, just as he had threatened to do. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And praying, I said: ‘O Lord God, do not destroy your people and your inheritance, whom you have redeemed in your greatness, whom you have led away from Egypt with a strong hand. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look upon the stubbornness of this people, nor upon their wickedness and sinfulness. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Otherwise, perhaps the inhabitants of the land, out of which you have led us, may say: “The Lord was not able to lead them into the land, which he promised to them. And he hated them; therefore, he led them out, so that he might put them to death in the wilderness.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>These are your people and your inheritance, whom you have led out by your great strength, and with your outstretched arm.’ ”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../deuteronomy/8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Deuteronomy 8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../deuteronomy/10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Deuteronomy 10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>