1 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, 2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak! 3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee. 4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. 5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD. 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you. 9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: 10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. 12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. 13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: 14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. 15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also. 20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. 21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. 22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. 23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you. 26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin: 28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. 29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.

1 "以色列啊， 你要听， 你今日快要过约旦河， 进去赶出比你又大又强的列国， 占领坚固、高得顶天的城市。

2 那地的民族又高又大， 就是亚衲族的人， 是你知道的， 你也听过有人指着他们说： ‘谁能在亚衲族人面前站立得住呢？’

3 所以今日你要知道， 耶和华你的 神要像烈火一样在你面前过去； 他要消灭他们， 他要在你面前把他们征服； 这样你就可以照着耶和华吩咐你的， 把他们赶走， 使他们迅速灭亡。

4 耶和华你的 神把这些国的民从你面前驱逐出去以后， 你心里不要说： ‘耶和华把我领进来取得这地， 是因着我的义。’其实耶和华从你面前把这些国的民赶出去， 是因着他们的恶。

5 你进去取得他们的地， 并不是因着你的义， 也不是因着你心里的正直， 而是因着这些国的民的恶， 耶和华你的 神才把他们从你面前赶出去， 为要实践他向你的列祖亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各， 起誓应许的话。

6 你要知道， 耶和华你的 神把这美地赐给你作产业， 并不是因着你的义； 你本来是顽固的民族。

7 "你要记住， 不可忘记， 你在旷野怎样惹耶和华你的 神发怒； 自从你出了埃及地的那天起， 直到你们来到这地方， 你们常是反抗耶和华的。

8 你们在何烈山又惹耶和华发怒， 以致耶和华向你们发怒， 要灭绝你们。

9 那时， 我上了山， 要领受石版， 就是耶和华与你们立约的石版； 那时我在山上住了四十昼夜， 不吃不喝。

10 耶和华把那两块石版交给了我， 是 神用手指写的； 石版上所写的， 是耶和华在大会之日， 在山上从火中对你们所说的一切话。

11 过了四十昼夜， 耶和华把那两块石版， 就是约版， 交给了我。

12 耶和华对我说： ‘你起来， 从这里赶快下去， 因为你从埃及领出来的人已经败坏了， 他们很快就偏离了我吩咐他们走的道路， 为自己铸造了偶像。’

13 "耶和华又对我说： ‘你看这民族真是一个顽固的民族。

14 你不要管我， 我要消灭他们， 把他们的名字从天下除去； 我要使你成为一个比他们更强更大的国。’

15 于是我转身， 从山上下来， 山上有火烧着； 我手中拿着两块约版。

16 我观看， 见你们自己铸造了牛犊， 很快就离开了耶和华吩咐你们走的道路。

17 我拿着那两块石版， 从我两手中扔下去， 在你们眼前摔碎了。

18 为了你们所犯的一切罪， 作了耶和华看为恶的事， 惹他发怒， 我就像先前那样， 俯伏在耶和华面前， 四十昼夜， 不吃不喝。

19 因为耶和华向你们大发烈怒， 要消灭你们， 我就很惧怕； 但是那一次耶和华也听了我的恳求。

20 耶和华也向亚伦发怒， 要消灭他； 那时候我也为亚伦祈祷。

21 我把你们的罪， 就是你们铸造的牛犊， 拿去用火烧了， 又把它捣碎， 磨成细粉， 像灰尘一样； 我把这灰尘撒在从山上流下来的溪水中。

22 "后来你们在他备拉、玛撒、基博罗．哈他瓦， 又惹耶和华发怒。

23 耶和华打发你们离开加低斯．巴尼亚， 说： ‘你们上去得我赐给你们作产业的地。’那时你们竟违背耶和华你们的 神的命令， 不相信他， 不听从他的话。

24 自从我认识了你们那一天起， 你们就常常悖逆耶和华。

25 "因为耶和华说要消灭你们， 我就俯伏在耶和华面前， 共俯伏了四十昼夜。

26 我祈求耶和华， 说： ‘主耶和华啊， 求你不要毁灭你的子民， 你的产业， 就是你借着你的大能救赎， 借着你有力的手从埃及领出来的。

27 求你记念你的仆人亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各； 不要看这民族的顽固、邪恶和罪过，

28 免得你领我们从那里出来的那地的人说： "耶和华因为不能把他们领进他应许的地， 又因为恨他们， 所以才把他们领出来， 要在旷野杀死他们。"

29 但是， 他们是你的子民， 是你的产业， 又是你借着大能和伸出来的膀臂领出来的。’"