Deu 9 | EngLXX | STEP | Hear, O Israel: You go this day across Jordan to inherit nations greater and stronger thanyourselves, cities great and walled up to heaven;

‏ Deuteronomy 9

1 Hear, O Israel: You go this day across Jordan to inherit nations greater and stronger thanyourselves, cities great and walled up to heaven; 2 a people great and many and tall, the sons of Enac, whom you know, and concerning whomyou have heardsay, Who can stand before the children of Enac? 3 And you shall know today, that the Lord your God he shall go before your face: he is aconsuming fire; he shall destroy them, and he shall turn them back before you, and shall destroy themquickly, as the Lord said to you. 4 Speak not in your heart, when the Lord your God has destroyed these nations before yourface, saying, For my righteousness the Lord brought me in to inherit this good land. 5 Not for your righteousness, nor for the holiness of your heart, do you go in to inherittheir land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord will destroy them from before you,and that he may establish the covenant, which the Lord sware to our fathers, to Abraam, and to Isaac,and to Jacob. 6 And you shall know today, thatit is not for your righteousnesses the Lord your God gives you this good land to inherit, foryou are a stiff-necked people. 7 Remember, forget not, how much you provoked the Lord your God in the wilderness: fromthe day that you⌃ came forth out of Egypt, even till you⌃ came into this place, you⌃ continued to be disobedienttoward the Lord. 8 Also in Choreb you⌃ provoked the Lord, and the Lord was angry with you to destroy you; 9 when I went up into the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant,which the Lord made with you, and I was in the mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread anddrank no water. 10 And the Lord gave me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and on themthere had been written all the words which the Lord spoke to you in the mountain in the day of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass after forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two tablesof stone, the tables of the covenant. 12 And the Lord said to me, Arise, go down quickly from hence, for your people whom youbrought out of the land of Egypt have transgressed; they have gone aside quickly out of the way whichI commanded them, and have made themselves a molten image. 13 And the Lord spoke to me, saying, I have spoken to you once and again, saying, I haveseen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people. 14 And now suffer me utterly to destroy them, and I will blot out their name from underheaven, and will make of you a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this. 15 And I turned and went down from the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to heaven;and the two tables of the testimonieswere in my two hands. 16 And when I saw that you⌃ had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made to yourselvesa molten image, and had gone astray out of the way, which the Lord commanded you to keep; 17 then I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke thembefore you. 18 And I made my petition before the Lord as also at the first forty days and forty nights:I ate no bread and drank no water, on account of all your sins which you⌃ sinned in doing evil beforethe Lord God to provoke him. 19 And I was greatly terrified because of the wrath and anger, because the Lord was provokedwith you utterly to destroy you; yet the Lord hearkened to me at this time also. 20 And he was angry with Aaron to destroy him utterly, and I prayed for Aaron also at thattime. 21 And your sin which you⌃ had made,even the calf, I took, and burnt it with fire, and pounded it and ground it down till it becamefine; and it became like dust, and I cast the dust into the brook that descended from the mountain. 22 Also in the burning, and in the temptation, and at the graves of lust, you⌃ provokedthe Lord. 23 And when the Lord sent you forth from Cades Barne, saying, Go up and inherit the landwhich I give to you, then you⌃ disobeyed the word of the Lord your God, and believed him not, and hearkenednot to his voice. 24 You⌃ were disobedient in the things relating to the Lord from the day in which he becameknown to you. 25 And I prayed before the Lord forty days and forty nights, the number that I prayedbefore, for the Lord said that he would utterly destroy you. 26 And I prayed to God, and said, O Lord, King of gods, destroy not your people and yourinheritance, whom you did redeem, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with your great power, andwith your strong hand, and with your high arm. 27 Remember Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob your servants, to whom you sware by yourself: looknot upon the hardness of heart of this people, and their impieties, and their sins. 28 Lest the inhabitants of the land whence you brought us out speak, saying, Because theLord could not bring them into the land of which he spoke to them, and because he hated them, has he broughtthem forth to kill them in the wilderness. 29 And theseare your people and your portion, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with your greatstrength, and with your mighty hand, and with your high arm.