Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and more populous than you: great cities with walls sky-high;
Know then this day that none other than your God יהוה is crossing at your head, a devouring fire; it is [God] who will wipe them out—subduing them before you, that you may quickly dispossess and destroy them, as יהוה promised you.
And when your God יהוה has thrust them from your path, say not to yourselves, “יהוה has enabled us to possess this land because of our virtues”; it is rather because of the wickedness of those nations that יהוה is dispossessing them before you.
It is not because of your virtues and your rectitude that you will be able to possess their country; but it is because of their wickedness that your God יהוה is dispossessing those nations before you, and in order to fulfill the oath that יהוה made to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Remember, never forget, how you provoked your God יהוה to anger in the wilderness: from the day that you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have continued defiant toward יהוה.
Word-by-Word Analysis
זכר
227
אלתשכח
759
את
401
אשרהקצפת
1176
אתיהוה
427
אלהיך
66
במדבר
248
למןהיום
181
אשריצאת
1002
מארץ
331
מצרים
380
עדבאכם
137
עדהמקום
265
הזה
17
ממרים
330
הייתם
465
עםיהוה
136
Deuteronomy 9:8
Gematria: 2845
ובחרבהקצפתםאתיהוהויתאנףיהוהבכםלהשמידאתכם
At Horeb you so provoked יהוה that יהוה was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.
I had ascended the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the Tablets of the Covenant that יהוה had made with you, and I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, eating no bread and drinking no water.
And יהוה gave me the two tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God, with the exact words that יהוה had addressed to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the Assembly.
And יהוה said to me, “Hurry, go down from here at once, for the people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted wickedly; they have been quick to stray from the path that I enjoined upon them; they have made themselves a molten image.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
יהוה
26
אלי
41
קום
146
רד
204
מהר
245
מזה
52
כי
30
שחת
708
עמך
130
אשר
501
הוצאת
502
ממצרים
420
סרו
266
מהר
245
מןהדרך
319
אשר
501
צויתם
546
עשו
376
להם
75
מסכה
125
Deuteronomy 9:13
Gematria: 2692
ויאמריהוהאלילאמרראיתיאתהעםהזהוהנהעםקשהערףהוא
יהוה further said to me, “I see that this is a stiffnecked people.
I saw how you had sinned against your God יהוה: you had made yourselves a molten calf; you had been quick to stray from the path that יהוה had enjoined upon you.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וארא
208
והנה
66
חטאתם
458
ליהוה
56
אלהיכם
106
עשיתם
820
לכם
90
עגל
103
מסכה
125
סרתם
700
מהר
245
מןהדרך
319
אשרצוה
602
יהוה
26
אתכם
461
Deuteronomy 9:17
Gematria: 3642
ואתפשבשניהלחתואשלכםמעלשתיידיואשברםלעיניכם
Thereupon I gripped the two tablets and flung them away with both my hands, smashing them before your eyes.
I threw myself down before יהוה —eating no bread and drinking no water forty days and forty nights, as before—because of the great wrong you had committed, doing what displeased and vexed יהוה.
As for that sinful thing you had made, the calf, I took it and put it to the fire; I broke it to bits and ground it thoroughly until it was fine as dust, and I threw its dust into the brook that comes down from the mountain.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואתחטאתכם
885
אשרעשיתם
1321
אתהעגל
509
לקחתי
548
ואשרף
587
אתובאש
710
ואכת
427
אתו
407
טחון
73
היטב
26
עד
74
אשרדק
605
לעפר
380
ואשלך
357
אתעפרו
757
אלהנחל
124
הירד
219
מןההר
300
Deuteronomy 9:22
Gematria: 3177
ובתבערהובמסהובקברתהתאוהמקצפיםהייתםאתיהוה
Again you provoked יהוה at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.
And when יהוה sent you on from Kadesh-barnea, saying, “Go up and take possession of the land that I am giving you,” you flouted the command of your God יהוה —whom you did not put your trust in nor obey.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ובשלח
346
יהוה
26
אתכם
461
מקדש
444
ברנע
322
לאמר
271
עלו
106
ורשו
512
אתהארץ
697
אשר
501
נתתי
860
לכם
90
ותמרו
652
אתפי
491
יהוה
26
אלהיכם
106
ולא
37
האמנתם
536
לו
36
ולא
37
שמעתם
850
בקלו
138
Deuteronomy 9:24
Gematria: 1972
ממריםהייתםעםיהוהמיוםדעתיאתכם
As long as I have known you, you have been defiant toward יהוה.
I prayed to יהוה and said, “O Lord יהוה, do not annihilate Your very own people, whom You redeemed in Your majesty and whom You freed from Egypt with a mighty hand.
Else the country from which You freed us will say, ‘It was because יהוה was powerless to bring them into the land promised to them, and because of having rejected them, that [their god] brought them out to have them die in the wilderness.’
Word-by-Word Analysis
פןיאמרו
387
הארץ
296
אשר
501
הוצאתנו
558
משם
380
מבלי
82
יכלת
460
יהוה
26
להביאם
88
אלהארץ
327
אשרדבר
707
להם
75
ומשנאתו
803
אותם
447
הוציאם
152
להמתם
515
במדבר
248
Deuteronomy 9:29
Gematria: 2260
והםעמךונחלתךאשרהוצאתבכחךהגדלובזרעךהנטויהפ
Yet they are Your very own people, whom You freed with Your great might and Your outstretched arm.”