Deuteronomy (The Speeches of Moses) - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 181

9-21 SPEECH III.

2 the skies! A People great and tell, sons of the Anakim whom you know, Who can

But I bear witness to—da.y that your EVER- LIVING GGD, Who goes before you as e. consuming fire, He will devas- tete them, and He will defeat them before you, and you shell drive out and destroy them from the hills, as the EvER—L1v1NG commanded you. When your Even-Lxvmo Gon hes

driven them away from you, think For my righteousness, the EvER—L1v1NG has brought me to possess this country; therefore the EvER·LIv1NG has driven out the nations who possessed it before me 1* Not for your righteousness, nor for

the rectitude of your heart did you come to possess their country, but because of the wickedness of those nations your EvER—LIv1NG GOD drove them out before you; and for the same reason He established the covenant which He swore to your fathers,·-—to Abraham, to Isaac, and .to ]acob.——Consequently learn that your EvER·L1v1N<; Gon has not given you to possess that beautiful country because of your righteous- ness ;-—for you are a stiff—necked people. Remember! forget not how you have provoked your EVER-LIVING GOD_in the desert, from the day He brought you out of the land of the Mitzeraim, until you arrived at this spot,——you have been rebels against the Evan-mvme! In Horeb also you provoked the EvER~L1v1NG; and the EVER—L1vING was angry with you to destroy you, when I went up the mountain to receive the two tables of stone;-·the Tables of the Covenant which the EVER-LIVING made with you ;—when I stayed forty days and forty nights, eatingeno bread and drinking no water; when the EVER- LIVING gave to me the two tables of stone, written bythe finger of GOD; and upon them, all the Command- ments which the EVER-Livmo dic- tated to you on the Hill, from the midst of the fire, at the time ofthe public assembly. And there, at the end of forty days and forty nights, the EVER-LIVING gave to me the two tables of stone ;·-the Tables of the Covenant. When the Evan-Lxvino said to

Arise! Go down from this Hill !——~for your People, whom I brought out from among the Mitzer- aim, have gone to corruption I They have turned quickly from what I commanded them. They have cast an Idol for themselves E The Ev1¤:R—L1v1No also spoke to

I have observed this people, and see that it is a perverse people. Fly from Me, and I will destroy and sweep their name from under the heavens, and Iwill make from you a powerful nation, and a greater than they} I consequently turned and de-

scended from the Hill, and the Hill burnt with fire., But the two tables of stone were in my two hands. Then I looked and perceived that you had sinned against your EvER.—L1v1NG GOD, having made for yourselves a Cast—metal Calt`,—-—»turning yourselves soon from the path which the EVER- LIVING commanded you. So I raised the two tables, and threw them from my two hands, and broke them in your sight. I afterwards fell before the EVER-

LIVING, as at first, for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had sinned, in doing wrong in the sight of the EvuR—L1v1No, to provoke Him ; for I was afraid in the presence ofthe anger and indignation which stirred the EVER-LIVING against you to destroy you; but my EvER·LIVING GOD heard me again at that time. The Evsrt-Liviuo, also, was very angry with Aaron, and would have destroyed him, but I prayed at the same time for Aaron himself; and your sin,~—~the calf that you had made,—-I took and melted in tire, and beat it, grinding as small as fine dust, and threw the dust upon 1-SZr II I2 16 18 20 21