[1] "Hear, O Israel; you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to
dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and
fortified up to heaven, [2] a 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] Know therefore this day that he who goes over
before you as a devouring 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] "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] Not 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 which the LORD
swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. [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]
Remember 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] Even at
Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you
that he was ready to destroy you. [9] When I went up the mountain to
receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the LORD made
with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither
ate bread nor drank water. [10] And the LORD gave me the two tables of
stone written with the finger of God; and on them were all the words which
the LORD had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire
on the day of the assembly. [11] And at the end of forty days and forty
nights the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the
covenant. [12] Then 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 which I commanded them; they have
made themselves a molten image.' [13] "Furthermore the LORD said to me, `I
have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn 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 mountain, and the mountain was burning with
fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. [16] And I
looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made
yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way which
the LORD had commanded you. [17] So I took hold of the two tables, and cast
them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. [18] Then 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 which you had committed,
in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
[19] For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure which the LORD bore
against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened to
me that time also. [20] And 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]
Then I took the sinful thing, the calf which 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 descended out of the
mountain. [22] "At Tab'erah also, and at Massah, and at
Kib'roth-hatta'avah, you provoked the LORD to wrath. [23] And when the LORD
sent you from Ka'desh-bar'nea, saying, `Go up and take possession of the
land which 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] You have
been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. [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] And I prayed to the
LORD, `O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thy heritage, whom thou hast
redeemed through thy greatness, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt with a
mighty hand. [27] Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not
regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness, or their sin,
[28] lest the land from which thou didst bring us say, "Because the LORD
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] For they are thy people and thy heritage, whom thou didst
bring out by thy great power and by thy outstretched arm.'

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