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Deuteronomy 9 Catholic Public Domain Version

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1 “Listen, O Israel: You shall cross over the Jordan today, in order to possess nations, very great and stronger than yourself, cities vast and walled even to the sky,
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 lofty, the sons of the Anakim, whom you yourselves have seen and heard, against whom no one is able to stand.
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 Therefore, you shall know today that the Lord your God himself will pass over before you, like a devouring and consuming fire, to crush and to wipe away and to utterly ruin them before your face, quickly, just as he has spoken to you.
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 You should not say in your heart, when the Lord your God will have destroyed them in your sight: ‘It is because of my justice that the Lord led me in, so that I might possess this land, while these nations have been destroyed because of their impiety.’
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 For it is not because of your justices or the uprightness of your heart that you will enter, so that you may possess their lands. Instead, it is because they have acted wickedly that they are destroyed upon your arrival, and so that the Lord may accomplish his word, which he promised under 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 Therefore, know that the Lord your God will not give you this excellent land as a possession due to your justices, for you are a very 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 Remember, and never forget, how you provoked the Lord your God to anger in the wilderness. You have always contended against the Lord, from the day that you went forth from Egypt, even to this place.
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 For at Horeb also, you provoked him, and, becoming angry, he was willing to destroy you,
8 Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.
9 when I ascended onto the mountain, so that I might receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord formed with you. And I persevered on the mountain for forty days and nights, neither eating bread, nor 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 two tablets of stone, written with the finger of God and containing all the words that he spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of fire, while the people, being stirred up, were assembled together.
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 And when forty days, and as many nights, had passed, the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
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 he said to me: ‘Rise up, and descend quickly from here. For your people, whom you led away from Egypt, have quickly abandoned the way that you have shown to them, and they have made a molten idol for themselves.’
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 again, the Lord said to me: ‘I discern 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 Depart from me, so that I may crush them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and appoint you over a nation, which will be greater and stronger than this one.’
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 And as I was descending from the burning mountain, and I held the two tablets of the covenant with both 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 had seen that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made a molten calf for yourselves, and had quickly abandoned his way, which he had revealed to you,
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 I threw down the tablets from my hands, and I broke them in your sight.
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 fell prostrate before the Lord, just as before, for forty days and nights, not eating bread, and not drinking water, because of all your sins, which you had committed against the Lord, and because you provoked him to anger.
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 feared his indignation and wrath, which had been stirred up against you, so that he was willing to destroy you. And the Lord heeded me at this time also.
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 Likewise, he became vehemently angry against Aaron, and he was willing to destroy him, and I prayed for him similarly.
20 Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
21 But as for your sin which you committed, that is, the calf, taking hold of it, I burned it with fire. And breaking it into pieces, and reducing it entirely to dust, I threw it into the torrent that descends 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 Likewise, at the Burning, and at the Temptation, and at the Graves of Lust, you provoked the Lord.
22 At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
23 And when he sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Ascend and possess the land, which I have given to you,’ even so, you spurned the command of the Lord your God, and you did not believe him, nor were you willing to listen 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 Instead, you were ever rebellious, from the day when I first began to know you.
24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.
25 And so, I lay prostrate before the Lord for forty days and nights, as I humbly begged him, lest he destroy you, just as he had threatened to do.
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 praying, I said: ‘O Lord God, do not destroy your people and your inheritance, whom you have redeemed in your greatness, whom you have led away from Egypt with a strong 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 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look upon the stubbornness of this people, nor upon their wickedness and sinfulness.
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 Otherwise, perhaps the inhabitants of the land, out of which you have led us, may say: “The Lord was not able to lead them into the land, which he promised to them. And he hated them; therefore, he led them out, so that he might put them to death in the wilderness.”
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 These are your people and your inheritance, whom you have led out by your great strength, and with your outstretched arm.’ ”
29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
Cross references (28)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Deuteronomy 11:31; Deuteronomy 4:38; Deuteronomy 1:28; Deuteronomy 11:23; Joshua 1:11
  2. 2 Numbers 13:22; Deuteronomy 2:21; Nahum 1:6; Deuteronomy 2:11–12; Daniel 11:16
  3. 3 Deuteronomy 4:24; Romans 8:31; Hebrews 12:29; Deuteronomy 20:4; Deuteronomy 7:23–24
  4. 4 Deuteronomy 8:17; 2 Timothy 1:9; Deuteronomy 9:5; Deuteronomy 18:9–14; Leviticus 18:24–30
  5. 5 Titus 3:5; Genesis 17:8; Genesis 26:4; Genesis 15:7; Genesis 13:15
  6. 6 Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 9:13; Exodus 32:9; Acts 7:51; Deuteronomy 31:27
  7. 7 Exodus 14:11; Exodus 16:2; Numbers 21:5; Numbers 25:2; Numbers 11:4
  8. 8 Psalm 106:19–22; Exodus 32:16; Exodus 32:7–10
  9. 9 Exodus 34:28; Exodus 24:18; 1 Kings 19:8; Exodus 24:15; Exodus 24:12
  10. 10 Exodus 31:18; Hebrews 8:10; Deuteronomy 10:4; Deuteronomy 18:16; Deuteronomy 4:10–15
  11. 11 Deuteronomy 9:9; Hebrews 8:6–10; Numbers 10:33; Hebrews 9:4
  12. 12 Exodus 32:7–8; Judges 2:17; Deuteronomy 31:29; Galatians 1:6; Hosea 6:4
  13. 13 Deuteronomy 9:6; Deuteronomy 10:16; 2 Kings 17:14; Deuteronomy 31:27; Exodus 32:9–10
  14. 14 Deuteronomy 29:20; Exodus 32:10–13; Psalm 9:5; Revelation 3:5; Numbers 14:11–12
  15. 15 Exodus 19:18; Deuteronomy 5:23; Deuteronomy 4:11; Exodus 32:14–35; Exodus 9:23
  16. 16 Exodus 32:19; Acts 7:40–41
  17. 18 Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 9:9; Psalm 106:23; 2 Samuel 12:16; Exodus 32:10–14
  18. 19 Exodus 32:14; James 5:16–17; Deuteronomy 10:10; Exodus 32:10–11; Psalm 99:6
  19. 20 Exodus 32:21; Exodus 32:35; Hebrews 7:26–28; Exodus 32:2–5
  20. 21 Exodus 32:20; Isaiah 31:7; Isaiah 30:22; Isaiah 2:18–21; Hosea 8:11
  21. 22 Numbers 11:34; Exodus 17:7; Numbers 11:1–5
  22. 23 Psalm 106:24–25; Hebrews 4:2; Isaiah 63:10; Psalm 78:22; Hebrews 3:18–19
  23. 24 Deuteronomy 31:27; Acts 7:51; Deuteronomy 9:6–7
  24. 25 Deuteronomy 9:18; Deuteronomy 9:16
  25. 26 Exodus 32:11–13; Titus 2:14; Jeremiah 14:21; Psalm 107:2; Exodus 15:13
  26. 27 Jeremiah 14:21; Micah 7:18–19; Isaiah 43:24–25; Exodus 3:6; Proverbs 21:12
  27. 28 Numbers 14:16; Exodus 32:12
  28. 29 Nehemiah 1:10; 1 Kings 8:51; Deuteronomy 4:34; Deuteronomy 9:26; Psalm 95:7

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 9:12 Clement of Rome, First Epistle to the Corinthians (Chapters LIII–LVIII)

    They have speedily departed from the way in which I commanded them to walk, and have made to themselves molten images." And the Lord said unto him, "I have spoken to thee once and again, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people: let Me destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  2. Quotes verse 9:9 Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (Sermon I)

    For the number ten, by which the perfection of blessedness is signified, multiplied four times, because of the fourfold divisions of the seasons, and the fourfold divisions of the world, will make the number forty. Wherefore Moses and Elias, and the Mediator Himself, our Lord Jesus Christ, fasted forty days, because in the time of this life, continence from the …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)

  3. Quotes verse 9:20 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture II)

    For it is Moses that says: And the anger of the Lord came upon Aaron: and I prayed for him, saith he, and God forgave him.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  4. Quotes verse 9:10 Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John (Chapter XX — 30-31, and XXI. 1-11)

    For we have absolute certainty that the Decalogue of the law, that is, those ten well-known precepts, were first written by the finger of God on two tables of stone. But the law, when it is not aided by grace, maketh transgressors, and is only in the letter, on account of which the apostle specially declared, "The letter killeth, but …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)