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Deuteronomio 9
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Deuteronomio 9
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Dios ayudará a su pueblo
9 Moisés continuó diciendo:
«¡Israelitas, pongan atención! Pronto cruzarán al otro lado del río Jordán, y expulsarán de esa tierra a todos los pueblos que allí viven. Esa gente es más fuerte y poderosa que ustedes, y sus ciudades son grandes y están bien protegidas con altas murallas. 2 Entre ellos viven los descendientes del gigante Anac, y la gente cree que son invencibles. 3 Pero ustedes saben que nuestro Dios marcha al frente de nosotros. Su poder es el de un fuego destructor, y con él derrotará y humillará a esos gigantes. Por el poder de Dios, ustedes podrán vencer a esa gente y la expulsarán de allí enseguida, tal como Dios lo ha prometido.
4-5 »Cuando ustedes hayan entrado ya en ese territorio, y Dios haya expulsado de allí a esa gente, no vayan a pensar que Dios les ha dado esas tierras porque ustedes son muy buenos. Dios expulsará a esa gente por su maldad. Así cumplirá la promesa que les hizo a Abraham, a Isaac y a Jacob, los antepasados de ustedes. 6 Una cosa debe quedar bien clara: si Dios les da esta buena tierra, no es porque ustedes sean muy buenos, pues en realidad son un pueblo muy terco.
Desobediencia de Israel
7-8 »Nunca se olviden de esto: Desde el día en que ustedes salieron de Egipto, y hasta el día de hoy, siempre han desobedecido a Dios. Cuando estaban en el desierto, y también en el monte Horeb, hicieron enojar a Dios, y él pensó en destruirlos. 9 Yo había subido al monte para recibir las tablas del pacto que Dios hizo con ustedes. Allí pasé cuarenta días y cuarenta noches sin comer ni beber nada.
10-11 »En esa ocasión Dios me dio los mandamientos que él mismo escribió en tablas de piedra. Ya antes, cuando les habló desde el fuego, él les había anunciado que les daría esos mandamientos. 12 A mí me dijo: “Baja de la montaña ahora mismo, pues el pueblo que sacaste de Egipto me está desobedeciendo; ¡muy pronto me ha traicionado! Se han fabricado un ídolo, y lo están adorando. 13 Me he dado cuenta de que este pueblo es muy terco. 14 ¡Déjame destruirlo, para que nadie vuelva a recordarlo! Pero a ti, te pondré por jefe de un pueblo mucho más fuerte y grande”.
15 »Yo bajé del monte con las dos tablas del pacto en mis manos. Cuando bajé, el monte ardía en llamas. 16 Al llegar a donde ustedes estaban, vi cómo habían pecado contra Dios: se habían hecho un ídolo con forma de toro y lo estaban adorando.
»No les tomó mucho tiempo desobedecer a su Dios. 17 Y fue tanto mi enojo que arrojé al suelo las dos tablas, y a la vista de todos se hicieron pedazos. 18-29 Después tomé el ídolo que habían hecho, lo quemé y eché las cenizas al arroyo que bajaba del monte.
»El pecado de ustedes me causó mucho dolor y tristeza, pues hizo enojar a Dios. Por eso me arrodillé delante de él, y durante cuarenta días y cuarenta noches no comí ni bebí nada. Dios estaba tan enojado con ustedes y con Aarón, que estaba decidido a destruirlos.
»Yo sentí tanto miedo que oré a Dios y le dije: “Dios mío, no destruyas al pueblo que sacaste de Egipto con tu gran poder. Es tu pueblo. Recuerda que Abraham, Isaac y Jacob siempre te fueron fieles y te obedecieron en todo. Olvídate de que este pueblo es terco; olvídate de su pecado y de su maldad. Si lo destruyes, los otros pueblos van a pensar que no pudiste llevarlo hasta la tierra que le prometiste. También van a pensar que tú no lo quieres, y que lo sacaste al desierto para destruirlo por completo. Esta gente es tu pueblo; es el pueblo que con tu gran poder sacaste de Egipto”.
»Una vez más, Dios escuchó mi oración y los perdonó. Pero no fue esa la única ocasión en que ustedes lo hicieron enojar. También lo hicieron enojar en Taberá, en Masá y en Quibrot-hataavá. Además, cuando ustedes estaban en Cadés-barnea, Dios les ordenó que fueran a conquistar la tierra prometida, pero ustedes no creyeron en su promesa ni lo obedecieron. ¡Desde el día en que los conocí, ustedes han sido siempre tercos y desobedientes!»
Deuteronomy 9
New International Version
Deuteronomy 9
New International Version
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
New King James Version
Deuteronomy 9
New King James Version
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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