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Deutéronome 9
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Deutéronome 9
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Souvenir des rébellions d'Israël
9 »Ecoute, Israël! Tu vas aujourd'hui passer le Jourdain pour te rendre maître de nations plus grandes et plus puissantes que toi, de villes grandes et fortifiées jusqu'au ciel, 2 d'un peuple grand et de haute taille, les descendants d'Anak, que tu connais et à propos desquels tu as entendu dire: ‘Qui pourrait résister aux descendants d'Anak?’ 3 Sache aujourd'hui que l'Eternel, ton Dieu, marchera lui-même devant toi comme un feu dévorant. C'est lui qui les détruira, qui les humiliera devant toi, et tu les chasseras, tu les feras disparaître rapidement, comme l'Eternel te l'a dit. 4 Lorsque l'Eternel, ton Dieu, les aura chassés devant toi, ne dis pas dans ton cœur: ‘C'est à cause de ma justice que l'Eternel me fait entrer en possession de ce pays.’ En effet, c'est à cause de la méchanceté de ces nations que l'Eternel les chasse devant toi. 5 Non, ce n'est pas à cause de ta justice et de la droiture de ton cœur que tu entres en possession de leur pays, c’est à cause de la méchanceté de ces nations que l'Eternel, ton Dieu, les chasse devant toi, et c'est pour confirmer la promesse que l'Eternel a faite avec serment à tes ancêtres, à Abraham, à Isaac et à Jacob. 6 Sache donc que ce n'est pas à cause de ta justice que l'Eternel, ton Dieu, te donne ce bon pays à posséder, car tu es un peuple réfractaire.
7 »Souviens-toi, n'oublie pas de quelle manière tu as excité la colère de l'Eternel, ton Dieu, dans le désert. Depuis le jour où tu es sorti d'Egypte jusqu'à votre arrivée ici, vous vous êtes révoltés contre l'Eternel.
8 »A Horeb, vous avez excité la colère de l'Eternel et l'Eternel s’est irrité contre vous au point de vouloir vous détruire. 9 Lorsque je suis monté sur la montagne pour prendre les tables de pierre, les tables de l'alliance que l'Eternel a conclue avec vous, je suis resté là 40 jours et 40 nuits, sans manger de pain et sans boire d'eau. 10 L'Eternel m’a donné les deux tables de pierre écrites du doigt de Dieu et contenant toutes les paroles que l'Eternel vous avait dites sur la montagne du milieu du feu, le jour de l'assemblée. 11 C’est au bout des 40 jours et des 40 nuits que l'Eternel m’a donné les deux tables de pierre, les tables de l'alliance. 12 L'Eternel m’a dit alors: ‘Lève-toi, dépêche-toi de descendre d'ici. En effet, ton peuple, celui que tu as fait sortir d'Egypte, s'est corrompu. Ils se sont bien vite écartés de la voie que je leur avais prescrite: ils se sont fait une idole en métal fondu.’ 13 L'Eternel m’a dit: ‘Je vois que ce peuple est un peuple réfractaire. 14 Laisse-moi les détruire et effacer leur nom de dessous le ciel, tandis que je ferai de toi une nation plus puissante et plus nombreuse que ce peuple.’ 15 Je suis reparti et je suis descendu de la montagne tout en feu, les deux tables de l'alliance dans les deux mains. 16 J’ai regardé et j’ai vu que vous aviez péché contre l'Eternel, votre Dieu. Vous vous étiez fait un veau en métal fondu, vous vous étiez bien vite écartés de la voie que l'Eternel vous avait prescrite. 17 Je tenais les deux tables; je les ai jetées et brisées sous vos yeux. 18 Je me suis prosterné devant l'Eternel, comme précédemment, 40 jours et 40 nuits, sans manger de pain et sans boire d'eau, à cause de tous les péchés que vous aviez commis en faisant ce qui est mal aux yeux de l'Eternel pour l'irriter. 19 En effet, *j'étais tremblant de peur[a] en voyant la colère et la fureur dont l'Eternel était animé contre vous au point de vouloir vous détruire. Mais l'Eternel m’a écouté cette fois encore. 20 L'Eternel était aussi très irrité contre Aaron, qu'il voulait faire mourir, et j’ai encore intercédé pour lui à cette époque-là. 21 J’ai pris le veau que vous aviez fait, ce produit de votre péché, je l’ai brûlé au feu, je l’ai broyé jusqu'à ce qu'il soit réduit en poudre et j’ai jeté cette poudre dans le torrent qui descend de la montagne.
22 »A Tabeéra, à Massa et à Kibroth-Hattaava, vous avez excité la colère de l'Eternel.
23 »Lorsque l'Eternel vous a envoyés à Kadès-Barnéa en disant: ‘Montez, prenez possession du pays que je vous donne!’ vous vous êtes révoltés contre l'ordre de l'Eternel, votre Dieu, vous n’avez pas eu foi en lui et vous n’avez pas obéi à sa voix.
24 »Vous avez été rebelles contre l'Eternel depuis que je vous connais.
25 »Je me suis prosterné 40 jours et 40 nuits, parce que l'Eternel avait dit qu'il voulait vous détruire. 26 J’ai prié l'Eternel, j’ai dit: ‘Seigneur Eternel, ne détruis pas ton peuple, ton héritage, que tu as racheté dans ta grandeur, que tu as fait sortir d'Egypte par ta main puissante. 27 Souviens-toi de tes serviteurs Abraham, Isaac et Jacob. Ne regarde pas à la dureté de ce peuple, à sa méchanceté et à son péché. 28 Sinon, les habitants du pays d'où tu nous as fait sortir diront: C'est parce que l'Eternel n'avait pas le pouvoir de les conduire dans le pays qu'il leur avait promis et parce qu'il les détestait qu'il les a fait sortir pour les faire mourir dans le désert. 29 Ils sont pourtant ton peuple et ton héritage, que tu as fait sortir d'Egypte avec puissance et force.’
Footnotes
- Deutéronome 9:19 J’étais… peur: évoqué en Hébreux 12.21.
Deuteronomy 9
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Deuteronomy 9
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Not Because of Israel’s Righteousness
9 Hear, Israel: You are now about to cross the Jordan(A) to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you,(B) with large cities(C) that have walls up to the sky.(D) 2 The people are strong and tall—Anakites! You know about them and have heard it said: “Who can stand up against the Anakites?”(E) 3 But be assured today that the Lord your God is the one who goes across ahead of you(F) like a devouring fire.(G) He will destroy them; he will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly,(H) as the Lord has promised you.
4 After the Lord your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself,(I) “The Lord has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.” No, it is on account of the wickedness(J) of these nations(K) that the Lord is going to drive them out before you. 5 It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity(L) that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness(M) of these nations,(N) the Lord your God will drive them out(O) before you, to accomplish what he swore(P) to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.(Q) 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.(R)
The Golden Calf
7 Remember this and never forget how you aroused the anger(S) of the Lord your God in the wilderness. From the day you left Egypt until you arrived here, you have been rebellious(T) against the Lord.(U) 8 At Horeb you aroused the Lord’s wrath(V) so that he was angry enough to destroy you.(W) 9 When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant(X) that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days(Y) and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.(Z) 10 The Lord gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God.(AA) On them were all the commandments the Lord proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.(AB)
11 At the end of the forty days and forty nights,(AC) the Lord gave me the two stone tablets,(AD) 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.(AE) They have turned away quickly(AF) from what I commanded them and have made an idol for themselves.”
13 And the Lord said to me, “I have seen this people(AG), and they are a stiff-necked people indeed! 14 Let me alone,(AH) so that I may destroy them and blot out(AI) their name from under heaven.(AJ) 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.(AK) 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.(AL) 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(AM) prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water,(AN) because of all the sin you had committed,(AO) 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.(AP) But again the Lord listened to me.(AQ) 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(AR) and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.(AS)
22 You also made the Lord angry(AT) at Taberah,(AU) at Massah(AV) and at Kibroth Hattaavah.(AW)
23 And when the Lord sent you out from Kadesh Barnea,(AX) he said, “Go up and take possession(AY) of the land I have given you.” But you rebelled(AZ) against the command of the Lord your God. You did not trust(BA) him or obey him. 24 You have been rebellious against the Lord ever since I have known you.(BB)
25 I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights(BC) because the Lord had said he would destroy you.(BD) 26 I prayed to the Lord and said, “Sovereign Lord, do not destroy your people,(BE) your own inheritance(BF) that you redeemed(BG) by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.(BH) 27 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness(BI) of this people, their wickedness and their sin. 28 Otherwise, the country(BJ) from which you brought us will say, ‘Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them,(BK) he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.’(BL) 29 But they are your people,(BM) your inheritance(BN) that you brought out by your great power and your outstretched arm.(BO)”
Deuteronomy 9
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Deuteronomy 9
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Israel’s Rebellions Reviewed(A)
9 “Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 2 a people great and tall, the (B)descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’ 3 Therefore understand today that the Lord your God is He who (C)goes over before you as a (D)consuming fire. (E)He will destroy them and bring them down before you; (F)so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you.
4 (G)“Do not think in your heart, after the Lord your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land’; but it is (H)because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out from before you. 5 (I)It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may [a]fulfill the (J)word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a (K)stiff-necked[b] people.
7 “Remember! Do not forget how you (L)provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. (M)From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. 8 Also (N)in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry enough with you to have destroyed you. 9 (O)When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and (P)forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. 10 (Q)Then the Lord delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire (R)in[c] 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 tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
12 “Then the Lord said to me, (S)‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have (T)quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molded image.’
13 “Furthermore (U)the Lord spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed (V)they are a [d]stiff-necked people. 14 (W)Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and (X)blot out their name from under heaven; (Y)and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’
15 (Z)“So I turned and came down from the mountain, and (AA)the mountain burned with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 And (AB)I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you. 17 Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and (AC)broke them before your eyes. 18 And I (AD)fell[e] down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 19 (AE)For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was angry with you, to destroy you. (AF)But the Lord listened to me at that time also. 20 And the Lord was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 21 Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I (AG)threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.
22 “Also at (AH)Taberah and (AI)Massah and (AJ)Kibroth Hattaavah you [f]provoked the Lord to wrath. 23 Likewise, (AK)when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and (AL)you did not believe Him nor obey His voice. 24 (AM)You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.
25 (AN)“Thus I [g]prostrated myself before the Lord; forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because the Lord had said He would destroy you. 26 Therefore I prayed to the Lord, and said: ‘O Lord God, do not destroy Your people and (AO)Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin, 28 lest the land from which You brought us should say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.” 29 Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.’
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 9:5 perform
- Deuteronomy 9:6 stubborn or rebellious
- Deuteronomy 9:10 when you were all gathered together
- Deuteronomy 9:13 stubborn or rebellious
- Deuteronomy 9:18 prostrated myself
- Deuteronomy 9:22 caused the Lord to be angry
- Deuteronomy 9:25 fell down
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