Assurance of Victory 1 ULT Hear, Israel! You are crossing the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you,{ with} cities great and fortified to the heavens, BSB BSB: Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
2 ULT a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakites, whom you, you know, and you, you have heard,‘Who can stand to the faces of the sons of Anak?’ BSB BSB: The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”
3 ULT And you shall know today that Yahweh your God, he is the one who goes over to your face, a devouring fire; he, he will destroy them, and he, he will subdue them to your face. And you will drive them out and exterminate them quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you. BSB BSB: But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.
5 ULT Not in your righteousness or in the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but in the wickedness of these nations, Yahweh your God is driving them out from your face, and so that Yahweh may establish the word that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. BSB BSB: It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 ULT And you shall know that not in your righteousness is Yahweh your God giving to you this good land to possess, for you{ are} a people stiff of neck. BSB BSB: 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.
The Golden Calf (Exodus 32:1–35; Acts 7:39–43)
7 ULT Remember, you shall not forget how you provoked Yahweh your God to anger in the wilderness; from the day that you went out from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. BSB BSB: Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
8 ULT And at Horeb you provoked Yahweh to anger, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you. BSB BSB: At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
9 ULT When I went up to the mountain to take the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that Yahweh cut with you, and I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights, bread I did not eat and water I did not drink. BSB BSB: When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
10 ULT And Yahweh gave to me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God. And on them{ was} according to all the words that Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. BSB BSB: Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.
11 ULT And it happened, at the end of 40 days and 40 nights, Yahweh gave to me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. BSB BSB: And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.
12 ULT And Yahweh said to me,‘Get up, go down quickly from here, for your people, whom you brought out from Egypt, have become corrupted. They have quickly turned aside from the path that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a cast figure.’ BSB BSB: And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”
13 ULT And Yahweh said to me, saying,‘I have seen this people, and behold, it{ is} a people stiff of neck. BSB BSB: The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
14 ULT Release from me, and I will destroy them and wipe out their name from under the heavens, and I will make you a nation mightier and greater than they.’ BSB BSB: Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
15 ULT And I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with the fire. And the two tablets of the covenant{ were} in my two hands. BSB BSB: So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.
16 ULT And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made for yourselves a cast- image calf. You had quickly turned aside from the path that Yahweh had commanded you. BSB BSB: And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.
17 ULT And I seized the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands. And I broke them before your eyes. BSB BSB: So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.
18 ULT And I prostrated myself to the face of Yahweh as before, 40 days and 40 nights. Bread I did not eat and water I did not drink, because of all your sin that you had committed, in doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. BSB BSB: Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
19 ULT For I was afraid from the face of the nose and the heat with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. And Yahweh listened to me also that time. BSB BSB: For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.
20 ULT And Yahweh was very angry against Aaron, to destroy him. And I interceded also for the sake of Aaron at that time. BSB BSB: The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.
21 ULT And I took your sin, the calf that you had made, and burned it in the fire and crushed it and ground well, until crushed to dust. And I threw its dust into the stream coming down from the mountain. BSB BSB: And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.
22 ULT And at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you were provoking Yahweh to anger, BSB BSB: You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.
23 ULT and when Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying,‘Go up and take possession of the land that I have given to you,’ and you rebelled against the mouth of Yahweh your God, and you did not believe him, and you did not listen to his voice. BSB BSB: And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.
24 ULT You have been rebellious against Yahweh from{ the} day I knew you. BSB BSB: You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.
25 ULT And I prostrated myself to the face of Yahweh 40 days and 40 nights, and I prostrated myself because Yahweh had said to destroy you. BSB BSB: So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
26 ULT And I prayed to Yahweh and said,‘My Lord Yahweh, do not destroy your people and your inheritance whom you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought out from Egypt with a mighty hand. BSB BSB: And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 ULT Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not turn to the stiffness of this people and to their wickedness and to their sin, BSB BSB: Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.
28 ULT lest the land where you brought us out from should say,“From Yahweh not being able to bring them into the land that he spoke to them, or from his hatred of them he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.” BSB BSB: Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
29 ULT And they{ are} your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.’ BSB BSB: But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.”
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