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Deuteronomy 9 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Israel Provoked God

(Exo 32:1–35 )
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 - "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,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:2 - 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?'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:3 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:4 - "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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:5 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:6 - "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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:7 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:8 - Even at Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:9 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:10 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:11 - And at the end of forty days and forty nights the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:12 - 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.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:13 - "Furthermore the LORD said to me, 'I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:14 - 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.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:15 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:16 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:17 - So I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:19 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:20 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:21 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:22 - "At Tab'erah also, and at Massah, and at Kib'roth-hatta'avah, you provoked the LORD to wrath.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:23 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:24 - You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:25 - "So I lay prostrate before the LORD for these forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:26 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:27 - Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness, or their sin,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:28 - 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."
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:29 - 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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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

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