King James Version, Updated™

(1) Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan this day, to go in to drive out nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

(2) a people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, 'Who can stand before the children of Anak!'

(3) Therefore understand this day, that the LORD your God is he who goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before your face; so you shall drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you.

(4) Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has driven them out from before you, saying, 'For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land'; but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD drives them out from before you.

(5) Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, that you go to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

(6) Therefore understand that the LORD your God does not give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.

(7) Remember, and do not forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day that you departed out of the land of Egypt, until YOU came to this place, YOU have been rebellious against the LORD.

(8) Also in Horeb YOU provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry enough with YOU to have destroyed YOU.

(9) When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with YOU, then I remained on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights, I neither ate bread nor drank water.

(10) And the LORD delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God; and on them were written all the words, which the LORD spoke with YOU on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.

(11) It came to pass at the end of 40 days and 40 nights, that the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

(12) And the LORD said to me, 'Arise, and you go down quickly from here, for your people who you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten image.'

(13) Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, 'I have seen this people, and, behold, they are a stubborn people.

(14) Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'

(15) So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

(16) And I looked, and, behold, YOU had sinned against the LORD YOUR God, and had made YOURSELVES a molten calf; YOU had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded YOU.

(17) I took the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

(18) And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, 40 days and 40 nights; I neither ate bread, nor drank water, because of all YOUR sins which YOU sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

(19) For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which the LORD was angry against YOU to destroy YOU. But the LORD listened to me at that time also.

(20) The LORD was very angry with Aaron, enough to have destroyed him; and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

(21) Then I took YOUR sin, the calf which YOU made, and burned it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, until it was as small as dust; and I threw the dust from it into the brook that descended out of the mountain.

(22) At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, YOU provoked the LORD to wrath.

(23) Likewise when the LORD sent YOU from Kadeshbarnea, saying, 'Go up and possess the land which I have given YOU;' then YOU rebelled against the commandment of the LORD YOUR God, and YOU did not believe him, nor listened to his voice.

(24) YOU have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew YOU.

(25) Thus I fell down before the LORD 40 days and 40 nights, I fell down 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 your inheritance, whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

(27) Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,

(28) lest the land which you brought us out say, "Because the LORD was not able to bring them into 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.'