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Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov.
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Know therefore, that the LORD your God doesn't give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
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Remember, don't forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of Mitzrayim, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
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Also in Horev you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was angry with you to destroy you.
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When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.
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The LORD delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which the LORD spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
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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.
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The LORD said to me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people whom you have brought forth out of Mitzrayim have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
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Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people:
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let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
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So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.