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Chapter 9 |
| 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,
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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:
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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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. |
