Deuteronomy · Majority Standard Bible
Deuteronomy 9 Majority Standard Bible
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1 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.
1 OYE, Israel: tú estás hoy para pasar el Jordán, para entrar á poseer gentes más [numerosas] y más fuertes que tú, ciudades grandes y encastilladas hasta el cielo,
2 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?”
2 Un pueblo grande y alto, hijos de gigantes, de los cuales tienes tú conocimiento, y has oído decir: ¿Quién se sostendrá delante de los hijos del gigante?
3 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.
3 Sabe, pues, hoy que Jehová tu Dios es el que pasa delante de ti, fuego consumidor, que los destruirá y humillará delante de ti: y tú los echarás, y los destruirás luego, como Jehová te ha dicho.
4 When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.
4 No discurras en tu corazón cuando Jehová tu Dios los habrá echado de delante de ti, diciendo: Por mi justicia me ha metido Jehová á poseer esta tierra; pues por la impiedad de estas gentes Jehová las echa de delante de ti.
5 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.
5 No por tu justicia, ni por la rectitud de tu corazón entras á poseer la tierra de ellos; mas por la impiedad de estas gentes Jehová tu Dios las echa de delante de ti, y por confirmar la palabra que Jehová juró á tus padres Abraham, Isaac, y Jacob.
6 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.
6 Por tanto, sabe que no por tu justicia Jehová tu Dios te da esta buena tierra para poseerla; que pueblo duro de cerviz eres tú.
7 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.
7 Acuérdate, no te olvides que has provocado á ira á Jehová tu Dios en el desierto: desde el día que saliste de la tierra de Egipto, hasta que entrasteis en este lugar, habéis sido rebeldes á Jehová.
8 At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
8 Y en Horeb provocasteis á ira á Jehová, y enojóse Jehová contra vosotros para destruiros.
9 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.
9 Cuando yo subí al monte para recibir las tablas de piedra, las tablas del pacto que Jehová hizo con vosotros, estuve entonces en el monte cuarenta días y cuarenta noches, sin comer pan ni beber agua:
10 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.
10 Y dióme Jehová las dos tablas de piedra escritas con el dedo de Dios; y en ellas [estaba escrito] conforme á todas las palabras que os habló Jehová en el monte de en medio del fuego, el día de la asamblea.
11 And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.
11 Y fué al cabo de los cuarenta días y cuarenta noches, que Jehová me dió las dos tablas de piedra, las tablas del pacto.
12 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.”
12 Y díjome Jehová: Levántate, desciende presto de aquí; que tu pueblo que sacaste de Egipto se ha corrompido: pronto se han apartado del camino que yo les mandé: hanse hecho una efigie de fundición.
13 The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
13 Y hablóme Jehová, diciendo: He visto ese pueblo, y he aquí, que él es pueblo duro de cerviz:
14 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.”
14 Déjame que los destruya, y raiga su nombre de debajo del cielo; que yo te pondré sobre gente fuerte y mucha más que ellos.
15 So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.
15 Y volví y descendí del monte, el cual ardía en fuego, con las tablas del pacto en mis dos manos.
16 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.
16 Y miré, y he aquí habíais pecado contra Jehová vuestro Dios: os habíais hecho un becerro de fundición, apartándoos presto del camino que Jehová os había mandado.
17 So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.
17 Entonces tomé las dos tablas, y arrojélas de mis dos manos, y quebrélas delante de vuestros ojos.
18 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.
18 Y postréme delante de Jehová, como antes, cuarenta días y cuarenta noches: no comí pan ni bebí agua, á causa de todo vuestro pecado que habíais cometido haciendo mal en ojos de Jehová para enojarlo.
19 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.
19 Porque temí á causa del furor y de la ira con que Jehová estaba enojado contra vosotros para destruiros. Pero Jehová me oyó aún esta vez.
20 The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.
20 Contra Aarón también se enojó Jehová en gran manera para destruirlo: y también oré por Aarón entonces.
21 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.
21 Y tomé vuestro pecado, el becerro que habíais hecho, y quemélo en el fuego, y lo desmenucé moliéndole muy bien, hasta que fué reducido á polvo: y eché el polvo de él en el arroyo que descendía del monte.
22 You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.
22 También en Tabera, y en Massa, y en Kibroth-hataavah, enojasteis á Jehová.
23 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.
23 Y cuando Jehová os envió desde Cades-barnea, diciendo, Subid y poseed la tierra que yo os he dado; también fuisteis rebeldes al dicho de Jehová vuestro Dios, y no lo creisteis, ni obedecisteis á su voz.
24 You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.
24 Rebeldes habéis sido á Jehová desde el día que yo os conozco.
25 So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
25 Postréme, pues, delante de Jehová cuarenta días y cuarenta noches que estuve postrado; porque Jehová dijo que os había de destruir.
26 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.
26 Y oré á Jehová, diciendo: Oh Señor Jehová, no destruyas tu pueblo y tu heredad que has redimido con tu grandeza, al cual sacaste de Egipto con mano fuerte.
27 Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.
27 Acuérdate de tus siervos Abraham, Isaac, y Jacob; no mires á la dureza de este pueblo, ni á su impiedad, ni á su pecado:
28 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.’
28 Porque no digan [los de] la tierra de donde nos sacaste: Por cuanto no pudo Jehová introducirlos en la tierra que les había dicho, ó porque los aborrecía, los sacó para matarlos en el desierto.
29 But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.”
29 Y ellos son tu pueblo y tu heredad, que sacaste con tu gran fortaleza y con tu brazo extendido.
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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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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; …
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
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)
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)