1 ¶ Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than you are, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom you know, and of whom you have heard said, Who can stand before the children of Anak!

3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he who goes over before you; he shall destroy them as a consuming fire, and he shall bring them down before your face: so you shall drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you.

4 Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out before you, It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: for the LORD is driving these nations out before you because of their wickedness.

5 It is not because of your righteousness, or because of the uprightness of your heart, that you are going in to possess their land: but the LORD your God is driving them out before you because of the wickedness of those nations, that he may keep the promise which he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

6 Understand therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess 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 that you departed from the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

8 Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was so angry with you that he would have destroyed you.

9 When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights, I did not eat bread or drink water:

10 And the LORD delivered to me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.

11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

12 And the LORD 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 aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molten image.

13 Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stubborn people:

14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot their name out from under heaven: 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 burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

16 And I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.

17 And I took the two tables, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights: I did not eat bread, or drink water, because of all your sins which you sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

19 For I was afraid of the awful indignation and fierce anger, which the LORD held against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me at that time also.

20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron enough to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

21 And I took your sin, the calf that you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust of it into the brook that came down out of the mountain.

22 At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, you also provoked the LORD to wrath.

23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land that I have given to you; you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe him, or listen to his voice.

24 You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

25 Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said that he would destroy you.

26 And I prayed to the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, do not destroy your people and your inheritance, which you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness, or their sin:

28 Lest the land from which you brought us out say, Because the LORD 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 slay them in the wilderness.

29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your mighty power and by your stretched out arm.