Deuteronomy
Chapter 9
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1Listen, Israel. You are crossing the Jordan today, to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, cities great and fortified to the sky,
2a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, Who can stand before the sons of Anak?
3Know today that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is the one who crosses over before you. He is a consuming fire. He will destroy them, and he will humble them before you, and you shall dispossess them and make them perish quickly, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has spoken to you.
4Do not say in your heart, when God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God pushes them out from before you, By my rightness God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has brought me in to take possession of this land. It is by the wickedness of these nations that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. is dispossessing them from before you.
5It is not by your rightness or by the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to take possession of their land. It is by the wickedness of these nations that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is dispossessing them from before you, and in order to establish the word that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
6Know that it is not by your rightness that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you this good land to take possession of it, for you are a stiff-necked people.
7Remember, do not forget, how you provoked God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
8At Horeb you provoked God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. was angry enough with you to destroy you.
9When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the A solemn agreement that binds God and people. that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. cut with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
10God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. gave me the two tablets of stone, written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire, on the day of the assembly.
11At the end of forty days and forty nights, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the A solemn agreement that binds God and people..
12God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to me, Get up, go down quickly from here, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have ruined themselves. They have turned aside quickly from the way I commanded them. They have made themselves a cast image.
13God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to me, saying, I have seen this people, and look, it is a stiff-necked people.
14Let me alone, and I will destroy them and wipe out their name from under the sky, and I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.
15I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the A solemn agreement that binds God and people. were in my two hands.
16I saw, and look, you had done wrong against God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God. You had made yourselves a cast calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. had commanded you.
17I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my two hands and broke them before your eyes.
18I threw myself down before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all your wrong, which you did in doing what was evil in God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s eyes, to provoke him.
19For I was in dread of the anger and the heat with which God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. was furious against you, to destroy you. And God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. listened to me that time also.
20God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. was very angry with Aaron, enough to destroy him, and I prayed for Aaron also at that time.
21Your wrong, the calf that you had made, I took and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it well until it was fine as dust, and I threw its dust into the A stream bed that keeps water, or runs when the rain comes. that comes down from the mountain.
22At Taberah, at Massah, and at Graves of the Craving, you were provoking God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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Graves of the Craving is the same place as in Numbers 11. The name is translated because that chapter gives its sense.
23And when God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you, you rebelled against the mouth of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, and you did not trust him, and you did not listen to his voice.
24You have been rebellious against God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. from the day I knew you.
25I threw myself down before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. those forty days and forty nights that I threw myself down, because God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. had said he would destroy you.
26I prayed to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. and said, My Lord God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., do not destroy your people and your inheritance, whom you Bought back. in your greatness, whom you brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.
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The consonants after “my Lord” are YHWH. The vowels on that name are the vowels of Elohim. The consonants are printed as Yahweh.
27Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look at the stubbornness of this people, or at their wickedness, or at their wrong.
28Or the land from which you brought us out will say, Because God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. was not able to bring them into the land he spoke of to them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.
29They are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.