to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out
from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob.
[6] Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to
possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
[7] Remember, and forget not, how thou
provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the
land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
[8] Also in Horeb
ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
[9] When
I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the
LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor
drink water:
[10] And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and
on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the
midst of the fire in 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 unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought
forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded
them; they have made them a molten image.
[13] Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have
seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
[14] Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and
blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
[15]
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the
covenant were in my two hands.
[16] And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your
God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had
commanded you.
[17] And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them
before your eyes.
[18] And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did
neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the
sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
[19] For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith
the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
[20]
And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same
time.
[21] And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and
ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that
descended out of the mount.
[22] And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked
the LORD to wrath.
[23] Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and
possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your
God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
[24] Ye have been rebellious against the LORD
from the day that I knew you.
[25] Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I
fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
[26] I prayed therefore unto the
LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed
through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
[27] Remember
thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness,
nor to their sin:
[28] Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able
to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them
out to slay them in the wilderness.
[29] Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest
out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
Deut.10
[1] At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up
unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
[2] And I will write on the tables the words that
were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
[3] And I made an ark of
shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the
two tables in mine hand.
[4] And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments,
which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and
the LORD gave them unto me.
[5] And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables
in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
[6] And the children of
Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there