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 drove 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 thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

15 So I tthat theurned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

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

17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before YOUR eyes.

18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all YOUR sins which ye 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, wherewith the LORD was wroth against YOU to destroy YOU. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.

20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

21 And I took YOUR sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye 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 ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD YOUR God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

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

25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy YOU.

26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:

28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest 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 hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.