King James Version

1 Hear, Israel, you are crossing over today the Jordan to come to possess nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven. 2 A great and tall people, the sons of the Anakim, whom you have known and heard who can stand before the sons of the Anak. 3 And you shall know today that the Lord your God is He who goes before you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, and you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has spoken to you. 4 Do not say in your heart, "In the driving out of the Lord your God before you, I have brought them in because of my righteousness; the Lord has brought me in to inherit this land, and because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord is driving them out from before you." 5 You are not coming to inherit their land because of your righteousness and the uprightness of your heart, but because of the wickedness of these nations, the LORD your God is driving them out before you, and in order to confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 6 And you shall know that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people. 7 Remember, do not forget what you provoked the LORD your God 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 And in the wilderness you provoked the LORD, and the LORD was angry with you to destroy you. 9 When I went up the mountain to take the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; bread I did not eat and water I did not drink. 10 And the LORD gave to me the two stone tablets, written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the LORD spoke with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. 11 And it was, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave to me the two tablets of stone, tablets of the covenant. 12 And the LORD said to me, "Get up, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten image." 13 And the Lord said to me, "I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people." 14 "Leave me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven, and I will make you into a great and numerous nation." 15 And I will go down from the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant are in my hands. 16 And I saw, and behold, you have sinned against the Lord your God; you have made for yourselves a molten calf; you have turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord commanded you. 17 And I grabbed the two tablets and threw them from my hands and shattered them before your eyes. 18 I fell down before the LORD for the first time forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water because of all your sin which you had committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and the fury with which the LORD was angry with you to destroy you, and the LORD heard me again at that time. 20 And in Aaron, the LORD was very angry to destroy him, and I prayed also for Aaron at that time. 21 And your sin which you committed with the calf, I took and burned it in the fire, and I ground it very fine until it was dust, and I threw its dust into the brook that flows down from the mountain. 22 And at Tav'erah and at Massah and at Kibrot-hattaavah you provoked the Lord. 23 And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, "Go up and possess the land that I have given you," you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God and did not believe him and did not listen to his voice. 24 You have been rebellious against the Lord since the day I knew you. 25 And I will pray to the LORD for forty days and for forty nights, because the LORD said to destroy you. 26 And I prayed to the Lord and said, "My Lord, Yahweh, do not destroy your people and your inheritance that you redeemed in your greatness, which you brought out of Egypt with a strong hand." 27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people, and at their wickedness and at their sin. 28 "Unless they say, 'The land that you brought us out of is one where the Lord was not able to bring them to the land that He spoke of to them, and because of His hatred of them, He brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.'" 29 And they are Your people and Your inheritance that You brought out by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm.