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Book of Deuteronomy 221

thou mayst bless the Lord thy God for the ex- Chapter 9
cellent land which he hath given thee.
Hear, O Israel: Thou shalt go over the Jor-
11 Take heed, and beware lest at any time
dan this day; to possess nations very great, and
thou forget the Lord thy God, and neglect his
stronger than thyself, cities great, and walled up
commandments and judgments and ceremonies,
to the sky,
which I command thee this day:
2 A people great and tall, the sons of the
12 Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, Enacims, whom thou hast seen, and heard of,
hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them, against whom no man is able to stand.
13 And shalt have herds of oxen and flocks of 3 Thou shalt know therefore this day that the
sheep, and plenty of gold and of silver, and of all Lord thy God himself will pass over before thee,
things, a devouring and consuming fire, to destroy and
extirpate and bring them to nothing before thy
14 Thy heart be lifted up, and thou remember
not the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of face quickly, as he hath spoken to thee.
4 Say not in thy heart, when the Lord thy God
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:
shall have destroyed them in thy sight: For my
15 And was thy leader in the great and ter-
justice hath the Lord brought me in to possess
rible wilderness, wherein there was the serpent
this land, whereas these nations are destroyed
burning with his breath, and the scorpion and
for their wickedness.
the dipsas, and no waters at all: who brought
5 For it is not for thy justices, and the up-
forth streams out of the hardest rock,
rightness of thy heart that thou shalt go in to
16 And fed thee in the wilderness with manna possess their lands: but because they have done
which thy fathers knew not. And after he had af- wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in:
flicted and proved thee, at the last he had mercy and that the Lord might aaccomplish his word,
on thee, which he promised by oath to thy fathers Abra-
17 Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My ham, Isaac, and Jacob.
own might, and the strength of my own hand 6 Know therefore that the Lord thy God
have achieved all these things for me. giveth thee not this excellent land in possession
for thy justices, for thou art a very stiffnecked
18 But remember the Lord thy God, that he
people.
hath given thee strength, that he might fulfil his
7 Remember, and forget not how thou pro-
covenant, concerning which he swore to thy fa-
vokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilder-
thers, as this present day sheweth.
ness. From the day that thou camest out of
19 But if thou forget the Lord thy God, and Egypt unto this place, thou hast always strove
follow strange gods, and serve and adore them: against the Lord.
behold now I foretell thee that thou shalt utterly 8 For in Horeb, also thou didst provoke him,
perish. and he was angry, and would have destroyed
20 As the nations, which the Lord destroyed thee,
at thy entrance, so shall you also perish, if you 9 When I went up into the mount to receive
be disobedient to the voice of the Lord your God. the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant