Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 9

Deut 9:1 “Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: You are passing over the Yardĕn today, to go in
to dispossess nations greater and stronger than yourself, cities great and
walled up to the heavens,
Deut 9:2 a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anaqim, whom you
know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who does stand before the
descendants of Anaq?’
Deut 9:3 “And you shall know today that יהוה your Elohim is He who is
passing over before you as a consuming fire – He does destroy them and
subdue them before you. So you shall dispossess them and destroy them
quickly, as יהוה has said to you.
Deut 9:4 “Do not think in your heart, after יהוה your Elohim has driven them
out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness יהוה has brought me in
to possess this land.’ But it is because of the wrong of these nations that יהוה
is driving them out from before you.
Deut 9:5 “It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your
heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wrong of these
nations that יהוה your Elohim drives them out from before you, in order to
establish the word which יהוה swore to your fathers, to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq,
and to Ya‛aqoḇ.
Deut 9:6 “And you shall know that יהוה your Elohim is not giving you this
good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-
necked people.
Deut 9:7 “Remember, do not forget how you provoked to wrath יהוה your
Elohim in the wilderness. From the day that you came out of the land of
Mitsrayim until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against יהוה.
Deut 9:8 “Even in Ḥorĕḇ you made יהוה wroth, so that יהוה was enraged with
you, to destroy you.
Deut 9:9 “When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone,
the tablets of the covenant which יהוה made with you, then I stayed on the
mountain forty days and forty nights. I did not eat bread nor did I drink water.
Deut 9:10 “Then יהוה gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger
of Elohim, and on them were all the Words which יהוה had spoken to you on
the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
Deut 9:11 “And it came to be, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that
יהוה gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
Deut 9:12 “Then יהוה said to me, ‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for
your people whom you brought out of Mitsrayim have acted corruptly. They
have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them, they have
made themselves a moulded image.’
Deut 9:13 “And יהוה spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and look,
they are a stiff-necked people.
Deut 9:14 ‘Leave Me alone, so that I destroy them and blot out their name
from under the heavens, and make of you a nation stronger and greater than
they.’
Deut 9:15 “So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain
burned with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
Deut 9:16 “And I looked and saw that you had sinned against יהוה your
Elohim, and had made for yourselves a moulded calf! You had quickly turned
aside from the way which יהוה had commanded you.
Deut 9:17 “And I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands
and broke them before your eyes,
Deut 9:18 “and I fell down before יהוה, as at the first, forty days and forty
nights. I did not eat bread and I did not drink water, because of all your sins
which you committed in doing evil in the eyes of יהוה, to provoke Him.
Deut 9:19 “For I was afraid of the displeasure and rage with which יהוה was
wroth with you, to destroy you. But יהוה listened to me that time once more.
Deut 9:20 “And יהוה was very enraged with Aharon, to destroy him, so I
prayed for Aharon at that time also.
Deut 9:21 “And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it
with fire and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust.
And I threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.
Deut 9:22 “And at Taḇ‛ĕrah and at Massah and at Qiḇroth Hatta’awah you
made יהוה wroth.
Deut 9:23 “And when יהוה sent you from Qaḏĕsh Barnĕa, saying, ‘Go up and
possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the mouth
of יהוה your Elohim, and you neither trusted Him nor listened to His voice.
Deut 9:24 “You have been rebellious against יהוה from the day that I knew
you.
Deut 9:25 “So I fell down before יהוה the forty days and forty nights, for I
fell down because יהוה had said He would destroy you.
Deut 9:26 “And I prayed to יהוה, and said, ‘O Master יהוה, do not destroy
Your people and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed in Your
greatness, whom You have brought out of Mitsrayim with a strong hand.
Deut 9:27 ‘Remember Your servants, Aḇraham, Yitsḥaq, and Ya‛aqoḇ. Do
not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wrong or on their sin,
Deut 9:28 lest the land from which You brought us should say, “Because יהוה
was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because
He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”
Deut 9:29 ‘And they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You
brought out by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm.’