1. Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,
2. a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”
3. Know therefore today, that the Lord your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out, and make them perish quickly, as the Lord has spoken to you.
4. Don’t say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, “For my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land;” because the Lord drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.
5. Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
6. Know therefore, that the Lord your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
7. Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left 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, and the Lord was angry with you to destroy you.
9. When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
10. The Lord delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which the Lord spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11. It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant.
12. The Lord said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”
13. Furthermore the Lord spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.