DEUTERONOMY - 9
1 Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross the Jordan today, to go in
and dispossess nations larger and mightier than you, great cities, fortified to
the heavens,
2 a strong and tall people, the offspring of the Anakim, whom you
know. You have heard it said of them, "Who can stand up to the
Anakim?"
3 Know then today that the Lord your God is the one who crosses over
before you as a devouring fire; he will defeat them and subdue them before you,
so that you may dispossess and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has promised
you.
4 When the Lord your God thrusts them out before you, do not say to
yourself, "It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me
in to occupy this land"; it is rather because of the wickedness of these
nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you.
5 It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your
heart that you are going in to occupy their land; but because of the wickedness
of these nations the Lord your God is dispossessing them before you, in order
to fulfil the promise that the Lord made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob.
6 Know, then, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good
land to occupy 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; you have been rebellious against the Lord from the day
you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place.
8 Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so
angry with you that he was ready to destroy you.
9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the
tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain
forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.
10 And the Lord gave me the two stone tablets written with the finger
of God; on them were all the words that the Lord had spoken to you at the
mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly.
11 At the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two
stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.
12 Then the Lord said to me, "Get up, go down quickly from here,
for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They
have been quick to turn from the way that I commanded them; they have cast an
image for themselves."
13 Furthermore the Lord said to me, "I have seen that this people is
indeed a stubborn people.
14 Let me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from
under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and more numerous than
they."
15 So I turned and went down from the mountain, while the mountain
was ablaze; the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
16 Then I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God,
by casting for yourselves an image of a calf; you had been quick to turn from
the way that the Lord had commanded you.
17 So I took hold of the two tablets and flung them from my two
hands, smashing them before your eyes.
18 Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and
forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin you
had committed, provoking the Lord by doing what was evil in his sight.
19 For I was afraid that the anger that the Lord bore against you was
so fierce that he would destroy you. But the Lord listened to me that time
also.
20 The Lord was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him,
but I interceded also on behalf of Aaron at that same time.
21 Then I took the sinful thing you had made, the calf, and burned it
with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly, until it was reduced to dust;
and I threw the dust of it into the stream that runs down the mountain.
22 At Taberah also, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you
provoked the Lord to wrath.
23 And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, "Go up
and occupy the land that I have given you," you rebelled against the
command of the Lord your God, neither trusting him nor obeying him.
24 You have been rebellious against the Lord as long as he has known
you.
25 Throughout the forty days and forty nights that I lay prostrate
before the Lord when the Lord intended to destroy you,
26 I prayed to the Lord and said, "Lord God, do not destroy the
people who are your very own possession, whom you redeemed in your greatness,
whom you brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; pay no
attention to the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin,
28 otherwise the land from which you have brought us might say,
"Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land that he
promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to let them
die in the wilderness.'
29 For they are the people of your very own possession, whom you
brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm."
DEUTERONOMY - 10
1 At that time the Lord said to me, "Carve out two tablets of
stone like the former ones, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark
of wood.
2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets,
which you smashed, and you shall put them in the ark."
3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, cut two tablets of stone like the
former ones, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.
4 Then he wrote on the tablets the same words as before, the ten
commandments that the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on
the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me.
5 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets
in the ark that I had made; and there they are, as the Lord commanded me.
6 (The Israelites journeyed from Beeroth-bene-jaakan to Moserah. There
Aaron died, and there he was buried; his son Eleazar succeeded him as
priest.
7 From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a
land with flowing streams.
8 At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark
of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister to him, and
to bless in his name, to this day.
9 Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance with his kindred;
the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God promised him.)
10 I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I had
done the first time. And once again the Lord listened to me. The Lord was
unwilling to destroy you.
11 The Lord said to me, "Get up, go on your journey at the head
of the people, that they may go in and occupy the land that I swore to their
ancestors to give them."
12 So now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? Only
to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the
Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
13 and to keep the commandments of the Lord your God and his decrees
that I am commanding you today, for your own well-being.
14 Although heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to the Lord your
God, the earth with all that is in it,
15 yet the Lord set his heart in love on your ancestors alone and
chose you, their descendants after them, out of all the peoples, as it is
today.
16 Circumcise, then, the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn any
longer.
17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great
God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe,
18 who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves
the strangers, providing them food and clothing.
19 You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the
land of Egypt.
20 You shall fear the Lord your God; him alone you shall worship; to
him you shall hold fast, and by his name you shall swear.
21 He is your praise; he is your God, who has done for you these
great and awesome things that your own eyes have seen.
22 Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy persons; and now the
Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in heaven.
DEUTERONOMY - 11
1 You shall love the Lord your God, therefore, and keep his charge,
his decrees, his ordinances, and his commandments always.
2 Remember today that it was not your children (who have not known
or seen the discipline of the Lord your God), but it is you who must
acknowledge his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,
3 his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh, the king
of Egypt, and to all his land;
4 what he did to the Egyptian army, to their horses and chariots,
how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued you, so
that the Lord has destroyed them to this day;
5 what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this
place;
6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab son of Reuben, how
in the midst of all Israel the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up,
along with their households, their tents, and every living being in their
company;
7 for it is your own eyes that have seen every great deed that the
Lord did.
8 Keep, then, this entire commandment that I am commanding you
today, so that you may have strength to go in and occupy the land that you are
crossing over to occupy,
9 and so that you may live long in the land that the Lord swore to
your ancestors to give them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk
and honey.
10 For the land that you are about to enter to occupy is not like the
land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sow your seed and irrigate
by foot like a vegetable garden.
11 But the land that you are crossing over to occupy is a land of
hills and valleys, watered by rain from the sky,
12 a land that the Lord your God looks after. The eyes of the Lord
your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the
year.
13 If you will only heed his every commandment that I am commanding
you today—loving the Lord your God, and serving him with all your heart and
with all your soul—
14 then he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early
rain and the later rain, and you will gather in your grain, your wine, and your
oil;
15 and he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you
will eat your fill.
16 Take care, or you will be seduced into turning away, serving other gods
and worshiping them,
17 for then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and he
will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain and the land will yield
no fruit; then you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is
giving you.
18 You shall put these words of mine in your heart and soul, and you
shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and fix them as an emblem on your
forehead.
19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you are at
home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise.
20 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
21 so that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied
in the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them, as long as the
heavens are above the earth.
22 If you will diligently observe this entire commandment that I am
commanding you, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and holding
fast to him,
23 then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will
dispossess nations larger and mightier than yourselves.
24 Every place on which you set foot shall be yours; your territory
shall extend from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river
Euphrates, to the Western Sea.
25 No one will be able to stand against you; the Lord your God will
put the fear and dread of you on all the land on which you set foot, as he
promised you.
26 See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:
27 the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God
that I am commanding you today;
28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord
your God, but turn from the way that I am commanding you today, to follow other
gods that you have not known.
29 When the Lord your God has brought you into the land that you are
entering to occupy, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse
on Mount Ebal.
30 As you know, they are beyond the Jordan, some distance to the
west, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal,
beside the oak of Moreh.
31 When you cross the Jordan to go in to occupy the land that the
Lord your God is giving you, and when you occupy it and live in it,
32 you must diligently observe all the statutes and ordinances that I
am setting before you today.
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