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Deuteronomy
8
Hear, O Israel: Thou shalt go over the Jordan this day;
to possess nations very great, and stronger than thyself,
cities great, and walled up to the sky,
A People great and tall, the sons of the Enacims, whom
thou hast seen, and heard of, against whom no man is
able to stand.
Thou shalt know therefore this day that the Lord thy
God himself will pass over before thee, a devouring
and consuming fire, to destroy and extirpate and bring
them to nothing before thy face quickly, as he hath
spoken to thee.
Say not in thy heart, when the Lord thy God shall have
destroyed them in thy sight: For my justice hath the
Lord brought me in to possess this land, whereas these
nations are destroyed for their wickedness.
For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness
of thy heart that thou shalt go in to possess their
lands: but because they have done wickedly, they are
destroyed at thy coming in: and that the Lord might
accomplish his word, which he promised by oath to thy
fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Know therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not
this excellent land in possession for thy justices,
for thou art a very stiffnecked people.
Remember, and forget not how then provokedst the Lord
thy God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that
thou camest out of Egypt unto this place, thou hast
always strove against the Lord.
For in Horeb also thou didst provoke him, and he was
angry, and would have destroyed thee,
When I went up into the mount to receive the tables
of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord
made with you: and I continued in the mount forty days
and nights, neither eating bread, nor drinking water.
And the Lord gave me two tables of stone written with
the finger of God, and containing all the words that
he spoke to you in the mount from the midst of the Are,
when the people were assembled together.
And when forty days were passed, and as many nights,
the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables
of the covenant,
And said to me: Arise, and go down from hence quickly:
for thy people, which thou hast brought out of Egypt,
have quickly forsaken the way that thou hast shewn them,
and have made to themselves a molten idol.
And again the Lord said to me: I see that this people
is stiffnecked:
Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their
name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation,
that is greater and stronger than this.
And when I came down from the burning mount, and held
the two tables of the covenant with both hands,
And saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God,
and had made to yourselves a molten calf, and had quickly
forsaken his way, which he had shewn you:
I cast the tables out of my hands, and broke them in
your sight.
And I fell down before the Lord se before, forty days
and nights neither eating bread, nor drinking water,
for all your sins, which you had committed against the
Lord, and had provoked him to wrath:
For I feared his indignation and anger, wherewith being
moved against you, he would have destroyed you. And
the Lord heard me this time also.
And he was exceeding angry against Aaron also, and would
have destroyed him, and I prayed in like manner for
him.
And your sin that you had committed, that is, the calf,
I took, and burned it with fire, and breaking it into
pieces, until it was as small as dust, I threw it into
the torrent, which cometh down from the mountain.
At the burning also, and at the place of temptation,
and at the graves of lust you provoked the Lord:
And when he sent you from Cadesbarne, saying: Go up,
and possess the land that I have given you, and you
slighted the commandment of the Lord your God, and did
not believe him, neither would you hearken to his voice:
But were always rebellious from the day that I began
to know you.
And I lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights,
in which I humbly besought him, that he would not destroy
you as he had threatened:
And praying, I said: 0 Lord God, destroy not thy people,
and thy inheritance, which thou hast redeemed in thy
greatness, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt with
a strong hand.
Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: look
not on the stubbornness of this people, nor on their
wickedness and sin:
Lest perhaps the inhabitants of the land, out of which
thou hast brought us, say: The Lord could not bring
them into the land that he promised them, and he hated
them: therefore he brought them out, that he might kill
them in the wilderness,
Who are thy people and thy inheritance, whom thou hast
brought out by thy great strength, and in thy stretched
out arm.
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