[1] Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to
dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and
fortified up to the sky, [2] a people great and tall, the sons of the
Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before
the sons of Anak? [3] Know therefore this day, that Yahweh your God is he
who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he
will bring them down before you: so shall you drive them out, and make them
to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you. [4] Don`t speak in your
heart, after that Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you,
saying, For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;
whereas for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh does drive them out from
before you. [5] Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your
heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these
nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he
may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob. [6] Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn`t give
you this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a
stiff-necked people. [7] Remember, don`t forget, how you provoked Yahweh
your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out
of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been
rebellious against Yahweh. [8] Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath,
and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you. [9] When I was gone up onto
the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the
covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty
days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water. [10] Yahweh
delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and
on them [was written] according to all the words, which Yahweh spoke with
you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the
assembly. [11] It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights,
that Yahweh gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the
covenant. [12] Yahweh said to me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence;
for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted
themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded
them; they have made them a molten image. [13] Furthermore Yahweh spoke to
me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked
people: [14] let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name
from under the sky; 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] I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against Yahweh
your God; you had made you a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out
of the way which Yahweh had commanded you. [17] I took hold of the two
tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
[18] I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty
nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin
which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to
provoke him to anger. [19] For I was afraid of the anger and hot
displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But
Yahweh listened to me that time also. [20] Yahweh was very angry with Aaron
to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. [21] I took
your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped
it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the
dust of it into the brook that descended out of the mountain. [22] At
Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to
wrath. [23] When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and
possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the
commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn`t believe him, nor listen to
his voice. [24] You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I
knew you. [25] So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights
that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you. [26] I
prayed to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, don`t destroy your people and your
inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have
brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. [27] Remember your servants,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don`t look to the stubbornness of this people,
nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin, [28] lest the land whence you
brought us out say, Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land
which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them
out to kill them in the wilderness. [29] Yet they are your people and your
inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your
outstretched arm.
