Deuteronomy 09 Moses reminds the Israelites of their murmurings and their unfaithfulness

Deuteronomy 09
Moses reminds the Israelites of their murmurings and their unfaithfulness
1 Hear, O Israel, this day thou shalt pass over Jordan, to enter in to possess nations greater and stronger than thou; large cities, walled to the heavens;
2 A great and high people, sons of giants, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard, Who would stand before the sons of the giants?
3 Know therefore today that the LORD thy God which passeth before thee is a consuming fire, and shall destroy them, and bring them down from before thee: and thou shalt throw them out, and destroy them, as the LORD hath thee. said.
4 When therefore the Lord thy God casteth them out from before thee, speak not in thine heart, saying, Because of my righteousness the Lord hath brought me to this land to possess it: for by the wickedness of these nations Lord cast them out before you.
5 It is not for your righteousness, nor for the uprightness of your heart, that you come to possess the land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God throws them out from before you; and to confirm the word which the LORD thy God sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Know therefore that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God gives you this good land to possess it, for you are a stubborn people.
7 Remember and do not forget that you provoked the wrath of the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day that you came out of Egypt, until you came to that place, you were rebellious against the LORD.
8 For in Horeb you provoked the LORD to anger, and he was kindled against you to destroy you.
9 I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord had made with you, and I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights. I did not eat bread, and I did not drink water;
10 And the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, written with the finger of God; and had written on them according to all those words which the Lord had spoken with you on the mount in the midst of the fire on the day of the congregation.
11 And it came to pass at the end of the forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tables of the covenant.
12 And the Lord said unto me, Arise, get down quickly, for thy people which thou hast brought out of Egypt are already corrupt: they turned aside from the way which I had commanded them: a molten image unto themselves.
13 And the Lord spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, they are a stubborn people.
14 Let me destroy them, and erase their name from under the heavens: and make thee a nation mightier and more numerous than this one.
15 Then I turned and came down from the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire, and the two tables of the covenant were in both my hands.
16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God; you had become a molten calf, and you turned away from the way which the LORD commanded you.
17 Then I took the two boards, and hurled them from both my hands, and broke them in your sight.
18 And I fell before the LORD as before; forty days and forty nights, I did not eat bread and drink water, because of all your sins which you had sinned, doing evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger.
19 For I feared because of the anger and fury, wherewith the LORD was wroth with you, to destroy you: but even this time the LORD heard me.
20 Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to destroy him. but I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.
21 But I took your sin, the calf that you had made, and burned it with fire, and trodden it well, until it crumbled to dust: and its dust cast down into the brook that came down from the mount.
22 And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth Hattaavah ye provoked the anger of the LORD greatly.
23 And the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you: you have rebelled at the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye have not believed, and have not obeyed his voice.
24 You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day I knew you.
25 And I fell down before the LORD those forty days and forty nights when I was prostrate; because the Lord said that he would destroy you.
26 And I prayed unto the Lord, saying, Lord God, destroy not thy people and thy inheritance, which thou hast redeemed with thy greatness, which thou hast brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not consider the hardness of this people, nor your wickedness, nor their sin;
28 That the people of the land whither thou hast brought us out shall not say, Because the LORD could not bring them into the land of which he had spoken unto them, and because he hated them, brought them out to kill them in the wilderness;
29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance which you have taken away with your great strength and with your outstretched arm.