Deuteronomy 7:12–11:25
12 “aThen it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you 1His covenant and 1His lovingkindness which He swore to your forefathers.
13 “He will alove you and bless you and bmultiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, 1in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you.
14 “You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female abarren among you or among your cattle.
15 “aThe Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you.
16 “You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you; ayour eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be ba snare to you.
17 “If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I adispossess them?’
18 you shall not be afraid of them; you shall well aremember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:
19 athe great trials which your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
20 “Moreover, the Lord your God will send athe hornet against them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish.
21 “You shall not dread 1them, for athe Lord your God is in your midst, ba great and awesome God.
22 “aThe Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, for the 1wild beasts would grow too numerous for you.
23 “aBut the Lord your God will deliver them before you, and will 1throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed.
24 “aHe will deliver their kings into your hand so that you will make their name perish from under heaven; bno man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.
25 “The graven images of their gods you are to aburn with fire; you shall bnot covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be csnared by it, for it is an dabomination to the Lord your God.
26 “You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and like it come under the aban; you shall utterly detest it and you shall utterly abhor it, for it is something banned.
1 “All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you amay live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to give to your forefathers.
2 “aYou shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has bled you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, ctesting you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
3 “He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you 1understand that aman does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.
4 “aYour clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.
5 “aThus you are to know in your heart that the Lord your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.
6 “Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to 1fear Him.
7 “For athe Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;
8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;
9 a land where you will eat food without scarcity, in which you will not lack anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
10 “When ayou have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.
11 “1Beware that you do not aforget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today;
12 otherwise, awhen you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them,
13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies,
14 then your heart will become 1proud and you will aforget the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of 2slavery.
15 “He led you through athe great and terrible wilderness, with its bfiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He cbrought water for you out of the rock of flint.
16 “In the wilderness He fed you manna awhich your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might btest you, to do good for you 1in the end.
17 “Otherwise, ayou may say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.’
18 “But you shall remember the Lord your God, for ait is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
19 “It shall come about if you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, aI testify against you today that you will surely perish.
20 “Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so ayou shall perish; because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.
1 “Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess anations greater and mightier than you, great cities 1bfortified to heaven,
2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, ‘aWho can stand before the sons of Anak?’
3 “Know therefore today that ait is the Lord your God who is crossing over before you as ba consuming fire. He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, so that cyou may drive them out and destroy them quickly, just as the Lord has spoken to you.
4 “aDo not say in your heart when the Lord your God has driven them out before 1you, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,’ but it is bbecause of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you.
5 “It is anot for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God is driving them out before you, in order to confirm bthe 1oath which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
6 “Know, then, it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are aa 1stubborn people.
7 “Remember, do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness; afrom the day that you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.
8 “Even aat Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you.
9 “When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord had made with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and nights; aI neither ate bread nor drank water.
10 “The Lord gave me the two tablets of stone awritten by the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.
11 “It came about aat the end of forty days and nights that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
12 “aThen the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have bquickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made a molten image for themselves.’
13 “The aLord spoke further to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, it is a 1bstubborn people.
14 ‘aLet Me alone, that I may destroy them and bblot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’
15 “aSo I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
16 “And I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God. You had made for yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you.
17 “I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands and smashed them before your eyes.
18 “aI fell down before the Lord, bas at the first, forty days and nights; cI neither ate bread nor drank water, dbecause of all your sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke Him to anger.
19 “For aI was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was wrathful against you in order to destroy you, bbut the Lord listened to me that time also.
20 “The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.
21 “aI took your 1sinful thing, 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; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.
22 “Again at aTaberah and at bMassah and at cKibroth-hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath.
23 “When the Lord sent you from aKadesh-barnea, saying, ‘bGo up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the 1command of the Lord your God; cyou neither believed Him nor listened to His voice.
24 “aYou have been rebellious against the Lord from the day I knew you.
25 “aSo I fell down before the Lord the forty days and nights, which I 1did because the Lord had said He would destroy you.
26 “aI prayed to the Lord and …