Deuteronomy 9:16   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you.

Deuteronomy 9:17   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes.

Deuteronomy 9:18   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

Then once again I fell prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the Lord's sight and so arousing his anger.

Deuteronomy 9:21   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.

Deuteronomy 9:23   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

And when the Lord sent you out from Kadesh Barnea, he said, "Go up and take possession of the land I have given you." But you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. You did not trust him or obey him.

Deuteronomy 9:24   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

You have been rebellious against the Lord ever since I have known you.

Deuteronomy 9:25   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights because the Lord had said he would destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:26   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

I prayed to the Lord and said, "Sovereign Lord, do not destroy your people, your own inheritance that you redeemed by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 9:27   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin.

Deuteronomy 9:28   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

Otherwise, the country from which you brought us will say, 'Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.'

Deuteronomy 10:1   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

At that time the Lord said to me, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark.

Deuteronomy 10:3   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

So I made the ark out of acacia wood and chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

Deuteronomy 10:6   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

(The Israelites traveled from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest.

Deuteronomy 10:7   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

From there they traveled to Gudgodah and on to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.

Deuteronomy 10:8   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister and to pronounce blessings in his name, as they still do today.

Deuteronomy 10:9   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

That is why the Levites have no share or inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the Lord is their inheritance, as the Lord your God told them.)

Deuteronomy 10:10   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

Now I had stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I did the first time, and the Lord listened to me at this time also. It was not his will to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 10:11   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

"Go," the Lord said to me, "and lead the people on their way, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to their ancestors to give them."

Deuteronomy 10:12   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deuteronomy 10:15   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations-as it is today.

Deuteronomy 10:16   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer.

Deuteronomy 10:17   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes.

Deuteronomy 10:20   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

Fear the Lord your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name.

Deuteronomy 10:21   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

He is the one you praise; he is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes.