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          DASV: Deuteronomy 9    

1 Hear, O Israel, you are to pass over the Jordan River today,
to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you,
with large cities fortified to the sky.
2 The people are strong and tall, the sons of the Anakites,
whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, 'Who
can stand before the sons of Anak?'
3 Know therefore today, that the LORD your God is the one
who goes over before you as a devouring fire, he will defeat
and subdue them before you. So you will defeat and quickly
drive them out, just as the LORD has promised to you.

4 Do not think in your heart, after the LORD your God has
driven them out before you, 'It was because of my righteousness
the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.' On the contrary,
it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD
is driving them out before you.
5 It is not because of your righteousness or because of the
integrity of your heart, you are going in to possess their land;
but because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD
your God is driving them out before you, so that he may keep
the promise that the LORD made to your forefathers, to Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob.
6 Know therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this
good land to possess it 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 left 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, he was about to destroy you.
9 When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone,
the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed
on the mountain forty days and forty nights, I did not eat bread
or drink water.
10 The LORD gave me the two tablets of stone written with the
finger of God, and on them were all the words that the LORD
spoke to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire,
on the day of the assembly.

11 At the end of the forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave
me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
12 The LORD said to me, 'Get up, go down quickly from here;
for your people you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted
themselves. They are quickly turning aside from the way I
commanded them and have made a metal idol for themselves.'

13 Furthermore, the LORD spoke to me, saying, 'I have seen this
people, and they are certainly a stubborn people.
14 Leave me alone, so that I may destroy them, and blot out
their name from under heaven; and I will make from you a
nation stronger and more numerous than they are.'

15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, while the
mountain was burning with fire and the two tablets of the
covenant were in my hands.
16 When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the LORD
your God by making for yourselves a metal idol in the shape
of a calf and that you had turned aside from the way that
the LORD had commanded you.
17 So I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of
my hands, and smashed them into pieces before your eyes.

18 Then I fell down before the LORD, as before, for forty
days and forty nights. I did not eat bread or drink water
because of all your sin you had committed, in doing what
was evil in the sight of the LORD provoking him to anger.
19 For I was afraid that in his anger and hot displeasure
the LORD was going to destroy you. But the LORD listened
to me at that time also.
20 The LORD was so angry with Aaron, he wanted to destroy him
but I prayed for Aaron at that same time.
21 I took your sinful thing, the calf you had made, and melted
it down, grinding it as fine as dust. Then I threw its dust
into the brook that flowed down the mountain.

22 Again at Taberah, Massah and Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked
the LORD to wrath.
23 When the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying,
'Go up and possess the land I have given you,' you rebelled
against the command of the LORD your God, and did not trust
him or obey his voice.
24 You have been rebellious against the LORD for as long
as I have known you.

25 So I fell on my face before the LORD for forty days and
forty nights because the LORD said he would destroy you.
26 I prayed to the LORD, and said, 'O sovereign LORD, do not
destroy your people and your inheritance that you have
redeemed by your greatness, and that you brought out of
Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob;
do not focus on the stubbornness of this people,
their wickedness or their sin.
28 Otherwise the land you brought us out of may say,
"It was because the LORD was not able to bring them
into the land he promised to them, and because he
hated them, he brought them out to slay them in the
wilderness."
29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance that
you brought out by your great power and by your
outstretched arm.'

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