Deuteronomy 9:5-24
New International Version
5 It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity(A) that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness(B) of these nations,(C) the Lord your God will drive them out(D) before you, to accomplish what he swore(E) to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.(F) 6 Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.(G)
The Golden Calf
7 Remember this and never forget how you aroused the anger(H) of the Lord your God in the wilderness. From the day you left Egypt until you arrived here, you have been rebellious(I) against the Lord.(J) 8 At Horeb you aroused the Lord’s wrath(K) so that he was angry enough to destroy you.(L) 9 When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant(M) that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days(N) and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.(O) 10 The Lord gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God.(P) On them were all the commandments the Lord proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.(Q)
11 At the end of the forty days and forty nights,(R) the Lord gave me the two stone tablets,(S) the tablets of the covenant. 12 Then the Lord told me, “Go down from here at once, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt.(T) They have turned away quickly(U) from what I commanded them and have made an idol for themselves.”
13 And the Lord said to me, “I have seen this people(V), and they are a stiff-necked people indeed! 14 Let me alone,(W) so that I may destroy them and blot out(X) their name from under heaven.(Y) And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”
15 So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.(Z) 16 When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf.(AA) You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you. 17 So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes.
18 Then once again I fell(AB) prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water,(AC) because of all the sin you had committed,(AD) doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and so arousing his anger. 19 I feared the anger and wrath of the Lord, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you.(AE) But again the Lord listened to me.(AF) 20 And the Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I prayed for Aaron too. 21 Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust(AG) and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.(AH)
22 You also made the Lord angry(AI) at Taberah,(AJ) at Massah(AK) and at Kibroth Hattaavah.(AL)
23 And when the Lord sent you out from Kadesh Barnea,(AM) he said, “Go up and take possession(AN) of the land I have given you.” But you rebelled(AO) against the command of the Lord your God. You did not trust(AP) him or obey him. 24 You have been rebellious against the Lord ever since I have known you.(AQ)
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