Deuteronomy · Bible in Basic English
Deuteronomy 9 Bible in Basic English
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1 Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven;
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, of whom you have knowledge and of whom it has been said, All are forced to give way before the sons of Anak.
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 Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God who goes over before you like an all-burning fire; he will send destruction on them, crushing them before you; and you will send them in flight, putting an end to them quickly, as the Lord has said.
3 Know therefore today that Yahweh 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 Yahweh has spoken to you.
4 And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you.
4 Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;” because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.
5 Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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 Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
6 Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
6 Know therefore that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.
7 Keep well in mind how you made the Lord your God angry in the waste land; from the day when you went out of Egypt till you came to this place, you have gone against the orders of the Lord.
7 Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh 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 Yahweh.
8 Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.
8 Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.
9 When I had gone up into the mountain to be given the stones on which was recorded the agreement which the Lord made with you, I was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights without taking food or drinking water.
9 When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
10 And the Lord gave me the two stones with writing on them done by the finger of God: on them were recorded all the words which the Lord said to you on the mountain out of the heart of the fire, on the day of the great meeting.
10 Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11 Then at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me those stones, the stones of the agreement.
11 It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant.
12 And the Lord said to me, Get up now, and go down quickly from this place; for the people you have taken out of Egypt have given themselves over to evil; they have quickly been turned from the way in which I gave them orders to go; they have made themselves a metal image.
12 Yahweh 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 And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:
13 Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
14 Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.
14 Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”
15 So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands.
15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
16 And I saw that you had done evil against the Lord, and had made for yourselves a metal image of a young ox: you had quickly been turned from the way in which the Lord had given you orders to go.
16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
17 And I let the stones go from my hands, and they were broken before your eyes.
17 I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
18 And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.
18 I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
19 For I was full of fear because of the wrath of the Lord which was burning against you, with your destruction in view. But again the Lord's ear was open to my prayer.
19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.
20 And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same time.
20 Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
21 And I took your sin, the image which you had made, and put it in the fire and had it hammered and crushed very small till it was only dust: and the dust I put in the stream flowing down from the mountain.
21 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
22 Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you made the Lord angry.
22 At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
23 And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take the land which I have given you; you went against the orders of the Lord your God, and had no faith in him, and would not give ear to his voice.
23 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice.
24 From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of the Lord.
24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.
25 So I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for forty days and forty nights as I did at first; because the Lord had said that he would put an end to you.
25 So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
26 And I made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord God, do not send destruction on your people and your heritage, to whom, by your great power, you have given salvation, whom you have taken out of Egypt by the strength of your hand.
26 I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Keep in mind your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, not looking at the hard heart of this people, or their evil-doing and their sin:
27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,
28 Or it may be said in the land from which you have taken them, Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land which he said he would give them, and because of his hate for them, he has taken them out to put them to death in the waste land.
28 lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
29 But still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great power and by your stretched-out arm.
29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
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Anak
The ancestor of the Anakim, the tall people of Canaan whom the spies feared; Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai at Hebron were his descendants.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 13:22; Numbers 13:28; Deuteronomy 9:2
Cross references (28)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Deuteronomy 11:31; Deuteronomy 4:38; Deuteronomy 1:28; Deuteronomy 11:23; Joshua 1:11
- 2 Numbers 13:22; Deuteronomy 2:21; Nahum 1:6; Deuteronomy 2:11–12; Daniel 11:16
- 3 Deuteronomy 4:24; Romans 8:31; Hebrews 12:29; Deuteronomy 20:4; Deuteronomy 7:23–24
- 4 Deuteronomy 8:17; 2 Timothy 1:9; Deuteronomy 9:5; Deuteronomy 18:9–14; Leviticus 18:24–30
- 5 Titus 3:5; Genesis 17:8; Genesis 26:4; Genesis 15:7; Genesis 13:15
- 6 Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 9:13; Exodus 32:9; Acts 7:51; Deuteronomy 31:27
- 7 Exodus 14:11; Exodus 16:2; Numbers 21:5; Numbers 25:2; Numbers 11:4
- 8 Psalm 106:19–22; Exodus 32:16; Exodus 32:7–10
- 9 Exodus 34:28; Exodus 24:18; 1 Kings 19:8; Exodus 24:15; Exodus 24:12
- 10 Exodus 31:18; Hebrews 8:10; Deuteronomy 10:4; Deuteronomy 18:16; Deuteronomy 4:10–15
- 11 Deuteronomy 9:9; Hebrews 8:6–10; Numbers 10:33; Hebrews 9:4
- 12 Exodus 32:7–8; Judges 2:17; Deuteronomy 31:29; Galatians 1:6; Hosea 6:4
- 13 Deuteronomy 9:6; Deuteronomy 10:16; 2 Kings 17:14; Deuteronomy 31:27; Exodus 32:9–10
- 14 Deuteronomy 29:20; Exodus 32:10–13; Psalm 9:5; Revelation 3:5; Numbers 14:11–12
- 15 Exodus 19:18; Deuteronomy 5:23; Deuteronomy 4:11; Exodus 32:14–35; Exodus 9:23
- 16 Exodus 32:19; Acts 7:40–41
- 18 Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 9:9; Psalm 106:23; 2 Samuel 12:16; Exodus 32:10–14
- 19 Exodus 32:14; James 5:16–17; Deuteronomy 10:10; Exodus 32:10–11; Psalm 99:6
- 20 Exodus 32:21; Exodus 32:35; Hebrews 7:26–28; Exodus 32:2–5
- 21 Exodus 32:20; Isaiah 31:7; Isaiah 30:22; Isaiah 2:18–21; Hosea 8:11
- 22 Numbers 11:34; Exodus 17:7; Numbers 11:1–5
- 23 Psalm 106:24–25; Hebrews 4:2; Isaiah 63:10; Psalm 78:22; Hebrews 3:18–19
- 24 Deuteronomy 31:27; Acts 7:51; Deuteronomy 9:6–7
- 25 Deuteronomy 9:18; Deuteronomy 9:16
- 26 Exodus 32:11–13; Titus 2:14; Jeremiah 14:21; Psalm 107:2; Exodus 15:13
- 27 Jeremiah 14:21; Micah 7:18–19; Isaiah 43:24–25; Exodus 3:6; Proverbs 21:12
- 28 Numbers 14:16; Exodus 32:12
- 29 Nehemiah 1:10; 1 Kings 8:51; Deuteronomy 4:34; Deuteronomy 9:26; Psalm 95:7
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