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You are about to cross the Jordan today, to go in and dispossess nations larger and mightier than you, great cities, fortified to the heavens, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>a strong and tall people, the offspring of the Anakim, whom you know. You have heard it said of them, “Who can stand up to the Anakim?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Know then today that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God is the one who crosses over before you as a devouring fire; he will defeat them and subdue them before you, so that you may dispossess and destroy them quickly, as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has promised you.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>When the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God thrusts them out before you, do not say to yourself, “It is because of my righteousness that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has brought me in to occupy this land”; it is rather because of the wickedness of these nations that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is dispossessing them before you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to occupy their land; but because of the wickedness of these nations the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God is dispossessing them before you, in order to fulfill the promise that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Know, then, that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God is not giving you this good land to occupy because of your righteousness; for you are a stubborn people. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Remember and do not forget how you provoked the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God to wrath in the wilderness; you have been rebellious against the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> from the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Even at Horeb you provoked the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> to wrath, and the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>And the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> gave me the two stone tablets written with the finger of God; on them were all the words that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> had spoken to you at the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>At the end of forty days and forty nights the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to me, “Get up, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have been quick to turn from the way that I commanded them; they have cast an image for themselves.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Furthermore the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to me, “I have seen that this people is indeed a stubborn people. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>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 more numerous than they.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>So I turned and went down from the mountain, while the mountain was ablaze; the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Then I saw that you had indeed sinned against the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God, by casting for yourselves an image of a calf; you had been quick to turn from the way that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> had commanded you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>So I took hold of the two tablets and flung them from my two hands, smashing them before your eyes. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Then I lay prostrate before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin you had committed, provoking the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> by doing what was evil in his sight. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>For I was afraid that the anger that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> bore against you was so fierce that he would destroy you. But the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> listened to me that time also. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him, but I interceded also on behalf of Aaron at that same time. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Then I took the sinful thing you had made, the calf, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly, until it was reduced to dust; and I threw the dust of it into the stream that runs down the mountain.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>At Taberah also, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> to wrath. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>And when the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, “Go up and occupy the land that I have given you,” you rebelled against the command of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God, neither trusting him nor obeying him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>You have been rebellious against the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> as long as he has<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-5182a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> known you.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>Throughout the forty days and forty nights that I lay prostrate before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> when the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> intended to destroy you, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>I prayed to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> and said, “Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>, do not destroy the people who are your very own possession, whom you redeemed in your greatness, whom you brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; pay no attention to the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>otherwise the land from which you have brought us might say, ‘Because the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to let them die in the wilderness.’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>For they are the people of your very own possession, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Deuteronomy 9:24">Deuteronomy 9:24</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Sam Gk: MT <i>I have</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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