The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Deuteronomy 09
1 Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the
Jordan today, 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 today 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 youshall drive themout andmake them
perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to
you.
4 Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh
your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness Yahweh
has brought me in to possess this land;”
because Yahweh drives them out before
you because of the wickedness of these
nations.
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 for your righteousness, for you are a stiffnecked people.
7 Remember, and don’t forget, how you
provoked Yahwehyour God to wrathinthe
wilderness. From the day that you left 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 had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even
the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh
made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither
ate bread nor drank water.
10 Yahweh delivered to me the two stone
tablets written with God’s finger. On them
were all the words which Yahweh spoke
with you on the mountain out of the middle 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 stone tablets, even the tablets of the
covenant.
12 Yahweh said to me, “Arise, get down
quickly from here; for your people whom
you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly
turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten
image for themselves!”
13 Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me,
saying, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
14 Leave 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. The two tablets of the covenant
were in my two hands.
16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned
against Yahweh your God. You had made
yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly
turned away from the way which Yahweh
had commanded you.
17 I took hold of the two tablets, and
threw 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 neither
ate bread nor drank water, because of all
your sin which you sinned, in doing that
which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, 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 angry enough with Aaron
to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at
the same time.
21 I took your sin, 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. I threw its dust into the brook that
descended out of the mountain.
22 At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth
Hattaavah you provoked Yahwehto wrath.
23 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh
Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the
land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him
or 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 out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Remember your servants, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the
stubbornness of this people, nor at their
wickedness, nor at their sin,
28 lest the land you brought us out from
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.”