Hear, O Israel: you are going over the Jordan this day, to possess nations that are mighty and mighty over you, great cities, and walled up to heaven,

a people great and high, the sons of the Anakims, whom you yourself have seen and heard, and whom no one can stand against them.

You will know today that the Lord your God himself will pass over before you, a devouring and consuming fire, to destroy and destroy and destroy before your face, just as he has spoken to you.

Say not in your heart, when the Lord your God will have destroyed them in your sight: Because of my justice the Lord brought me in to possess this land, since these nations were destroyed because of their wickedness.

For you shall not go in for your righteousness and uprightness of heart to possess their lands; but because they have done wickedly, they have been destroyed when you come in;

Know therefore that the Lord your God will not give you this good land in possession for your justices, because you are a very stiffnecked people.

Remember, and do not forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to anger in the wilderness. From the day that you came out of Egypt even to this place, you have always contended with the LORD.

For even in Horeb you provoked him, and being angry wanted to destroy you

when I went up to the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you: and I continued on the mountain forty days and nights, eating no bread, and drinking no water.

And the Lord gave me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and containing all the words which he spoke to you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire, when the people were assembled together.

And it came to pass, when forty days and as many nights were over, that the Lord gave me two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant,

And he said to me: Arise, and get down from here quickly: because your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have quickly deserted the way, which you showed them, and have made for themselves a molten image.

And again the Lord said to me: I perceive that this people is stiff-necked,

let me destroy him, and erase his name from under heaven, and make you a nation that is greater and stronger than this.

And when I came down from the burning mountain, and I held the two tablets of the covenant in both hands,

and I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and that you had made a molten calf, and had quickly deserted the way that he had shown you.

I cast the tables out of my hands, and broke them before you.

And I fell down before the Lord as before, for forty days and nights, not eating bread, nor drinking water, because of all your sins which you had committed against the Lord, and you provoked him to anger:

for I was afraid of the fury and the wrath by which he was stirred up against you, to destroy you. And the Lord heard me this time also.

And he was very angry with Aaron, and wanted to bruise him, and I made supplication for him in like manner.

But your sin, which you did, that is, the calf, I took, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it in pieces, and until it was reduced to dust, I cast it into the torrent that came down from the mountain.

In the burning, and in temptation, and in the graves of lust, you provoked the Lord:

And when he sent you from Cadesbarne, saying: Go up, and possess the land which I gave you, and you have despised the commandment of the Lord your God, and you did not believe him, nor would you hear his voice.

but you were always rebellious from the day that I began to know you.

And I lay before the Lord forty days and nights, during which I humbly besought him that he would not destroy you, as he had threatened:

And praying, I said, O Lord God, destroy not your people, and your inheritance, which you redeemed by your greatness, which you brought up out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: regard not the hardness of this people, and their wickedness, and sin:

lest perhaps the inhabitants of the land from which you brought us should say: The Lord could not bring them into the land which he promised them, and he hated them: therefore he led them out to kill them in the wilderness.

who are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.