Verse 5

Deuteronomy 9:5

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5 Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God (Elohim) is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Original Language Text

hebrew

לֹ֣א בְ/צִדְקָתְ/ךָ֗ וּ/בְ/יֹ֨שֶׁר֙ לְבָ֣בְ/ךָ֔ אַתָּ֥ה בָ֖א לָ/רֶ֣שֶׁת אֶת אַרְצָ֑/ם כִּ֞י בְּ/רִשְׁעַ֣ת הַ/גּוֹיִ֣ם הָ/אֵ֗לֶּה יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֶ֨י/ךָ֙ מוֹרִישָׁ֣/ם מִ/פָּנֶ֔י/ךָ וּ/לְמַ֜עַן הָקִ֣ים אֶת הַ/דָּבָ֗ר אֲשֶׁ֨ר נִשְׁבַּ֤ע יְהוָה֙ לַ/אֲבֹתֶ֔י/ךָ לְ/אַבְרָהָ֥ם לְ/יִצְחָ֖ק וּֽ/לְ/יַעֲקֹֽב

English Translation

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.

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Chapter 9 Context

1 Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and str... Focus ↗

2 A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, of whom you have knowledge and of whom it has been... Focus ↗

3 Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God (Elohim) who goes over before you like an all-bur... Focus ↗

4 And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my rig... Focus ↗

5 Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; b...

6 Be certain then that the Lord your God (Elohim) is not giving you this good land as a reward for you... Focus ↗

7 Keep well in mind how you made the Lord your God (Elohim) angry in the waste land; from the day when... Focus ↗

8 Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you. Focus ↗

9 When I had gone up into the mountain to be given the stones on which was recorded the agreement whic... Focus ↗

10 And the Lord gave me the two stones with writing on them done by the finger of God (Elohim): on them... Focus ↗

11 Then at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me those stones, the stones of the agre... Focus ↗

12 And the Lord said to me, Get up now, and go down quickly from this place; for the people you have ta... Focus ↗

13 And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked: Focus ↗

14 Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation gre... Focus ↗

15 So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two... Focus ↗

16 And I saw that you had done evil against the Lord, and had made for yourselves a metal image of a yo... Focus ↗

17 And I let the stones go from my hands, and they were broken before your eyes. Focus ↗

18 And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, withou... Focus ↗

19 For I was full of fear because of the wrath of the Lord which was burning against you, with your des... Focus ↗

20 And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same t... Focus ↗

21 And I took your sin, the image which you had made, and put it in the fire and had it hammered and cr... Focus ↗

22 Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you made the Lord angry. Focus ↗

23 And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take the land which I have given yo... Focus ↗

24 From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of the Lord. Focus ↗

25 So I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for forty days and forty nights as I did at firs... Focus ↗

26 And I made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord God (Elohim), do not send destruction on your people... Focus ↗

27 Keep in mind your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, not looking at the hard heart of this people,... Focus ↗

28 Or it may be said in the land from which you have taken them, Because the Lord was not able to take... Focus ↗

29 But still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great power and by your... Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Deuteronomy
Chapter: Chapter 9 (29 verses)
Version: Bible in Basic English

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