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Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 9

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Chapter 9 of Deuteronomy—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ “Hear, O Israel, you are today crossing the Jordan1 to go in and dispossess nations greater and mightier than you,2 cities great and fortified to the heavens,3
  2. a people great and tall, the sons of Anʹa·kim,4 about whom you yourself have known and you yourself have heard it said, ‘Who can make a firm stand before the sons of Aʹnak?’
  3. And you well know today that Jehovah your God is crossing before you.5 A consuming fire he is.6 He will annihilate7 them, and he himself will subdue them before you; and you must dispossess them and destroy them speedily, just as Jehovah has spoken to you.8
  4. ¶ “Do not say in your heart when Jehovah your God pushes them away from before you this, ‘It was for my own righteousness that Jehovah has brought me in to take possession of this land,’9 whereas it is for the wickedness of these nations that Jehovah is driving them away from before you.10
  5. It is not for your righteousness11 or for the uprightness of your heart12 that you are going in to take possession of their land; in fact, it is for the wickedness of these nations that Jehovah your God is driving them away from before you,13 and in order to carry out the word that Jehovah swore to your forefathers, Abraham,14 Isaac15 and Jacob.16
  6. And you must know that it is not for your righteousness that Jehovah your God is giving you this good land to take possession of it; for you are a stiff-necked people.17
  7. ¶ “Remember: Do not forget how you have provoked Jehovah your God in the wilderness.18 From the day that you went out of the land of Egypt until YOUR coming to this place YOU people have proved rebellious in YOUR behavior with Jehovah.19
  8. Even in Hoʹreb YOU provoked Jehovah to anger so that Jehovah got incensed at YOU to the point of annihilating YOU.20
  9. When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets,21 the tablets of the covenant that Jehovah had concluded with YOU,22 and I kept dwelling in the mountain forty days and forty nights,23 (I neither ate bread nor drank water,)
  10. then Jehovah gave me the two tablets of stone written upon with God’s finger;24 and upon them were all the words[a] that Jehovah had spoken with YOU in the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the congregation.[b]25
  11. And it came about that at the end of the forty days and forty nights Jehovah gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant;26
  12. and Jehovah proceeded to say to me, ‘Get up, go down quickly from here, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted ruinously.27 They have turned aside quickly from the way about which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten image.’28
  13. And Jehovah went on to say this to me, ‘I have seen this people, and, look! it is a stiff-necked people.29
  14. Let me alone that I may annihilate30 them and wipe out their name from under the heavens,31 and let me make you a nation mightier and more populous than they are.’32
  15. ¶ “After that I turned and went down from the mountain, while the mountain was burning with fire;33 and the two tablets of the covenant were in both my hands.34
  16. Then I looked, and there YOU had sinned against Jehovah YOUR God! YOU had made yourselves a molten calf.35 YOU had turned aside quickly from the way about which Jehovah had commanded YOU.36
  17. At that I took hold of the two tablets and flung them down from both my hands and shattered them before YOUR eyes.37
  18. And I proceeded to prostrate myself before Jehovah, as at first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water,38 because of all YOUR sin that YOU had committed in doing evil in the eyes of Jehovah so as to offend him.39
  19. For I was scared because of the hot anger with which Jehovah had got indignant at YOU to the point of annihilating YOU.40 However, Jehovah listened to me also that time.41
  20. ¶ “At Aaron, too, Jehovah got very incensed to the point of annihilating him;42 but I made supplication43 also in behalf of Aaron at that particular time.
  21. And YOUR sin that YOU had made, the calf,44 I took, and I proceeded to burn it in the fire and to crush it, grinding it thoroughly until it had become fine like dust; after which I threw its dust into the torrent that was descending from the mountain.45
  22. ¶ “Further, at Tabʹe·rah46 and at Masʹsah47 and at Kibʹroth-hat·taʹa·vah48 YOU proved yourselves provokers of Jehovah to anger.49
  23. And when Jehovah sent YOU out of Kaʹdesh-barʹne·a,50 saying, ‘Go up and take possession of the land that I shall certainly give YOU!’ then YOU behaved rebelliously against the order of Jehovah YOUR God,51 and YOU did not exercise faith52 toward him and did not listen to his voice.53
  24. YOU have proved yourselves rebellious in behavior with Jehovah54 from the day of my knowing YOU.
  25. ¶ “So I kept prostrating myself before Jehovah forty days and forty nights,55 for I prostrated myself thus because Jehovah talked[c] of annihilating YOU.56
  26. And I began to make supplication57 to Jehovah and to say, ‘O Sovereign Lord Jehovah,[d] do not bring to ruin your people, even your private property,[e]58 whom you redeemed with your greatness, whom you brought out of Egypt59 with a strong hand.60
  27. Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.61 Do not turn your face to the hardness of this people and their wickedness and their sin,62
  28. for fear the land[f]63 out of which you brought us may say: “Because Jehovah was unable to bring them into the land that he had promised them, and because he hated them he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.”64
  29. They are, too, your people and your private property65 whom you brought out with your great power and your outstretched arm.’66

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ According to LXXSyVg; MSam, “upon them there was [the same] as all the words.”
  2. ^ “The congregation.” Heb., haq·qa·halʹ; Gr., ek·kle·siʹas. See 4:10 ftn, “Horeb.”
  3. ^ Or, “thought.”
  4. ^ “O Sovereign Lord Jehovah.” Heb., ʼAdho·naiʹ Yehwihʹ. See App 1E.
  5. ^ Or, “your inheritance.”
  6. ^ “The land,” sing. but with the verb, “may say,” pl. in Heb.; SamLXXSyVg, “the inhabitants of the land.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ De 11:31; Jos 4:19
  2. ^ De 4:38; 7:1; 11:23
  3. ^ Nu 13:28
  4. ^ Nu 13:33; De 1:28; 2:21
  5. ^ De 1:30; 20:4; 31:3; Jos 3:11
  6. ^ De 4:24; Na 1:6; Heb 12:29
  7. ^ De 7:23; 20:16
  8. ^ Ex 23:31; De 7:24
  9. ^ De 7:8; Eze 36:22
  10. ^ Ge 15:16; De 12:31; 18:12
  11. ^ 1Ki 8:46; Ps 51:5; Ro 3:23; 5:12; Ti 3:5
  12. ^ Je 17:9
  13. ^ Le 18:25
  14. ^ Ge 13:15; 17:8
  15. ^ Ge 26:3
  16. ^ Ge 28:13
  17. ^ Ex 34:9; Ps 78:8; Is 48:4; Ac 7:51
  18. ^ De 9:22; Ps 78:40; Heb 3:16
  19. ^ Ex 17:2; Nu 11:4; 16:2; 25:2; De 31:27; 32:5; Ne 9:16
  20. ^ Ex 32:4, 10; Ps 106:19
  21. ^ Ex 24:12; 31:18; 32:16
  22. ^ Ex 24:7; Ga 4:24
  23. ^ Ex 24:18
  24. ^ Ex 31:18; Ps 8:3; Mt 12:28; Lu 11:20
  25. ^ Ex 19:19; De 4:10, 12
  26. ^ Ex 31:18; De 4:13
  27. ^ Ex 32:7; De 4:16
  28. ^ Ex 32:4
  29. ^ Ex 32:9
  30. ^ Ex 32:10
  31. ^ De 7:24; Ps 9:5
  32. ^ Nu 14:12
  33. ^ Ex 19:18; De 4:11
  34. ^ Ex 32:15
  35. ^ Ac 7:40
  36. ^ Ex 20:3, 4; De 5:8; Ac 7:41
  37. ^ Ex 32:19
  38. ^ Ex 34:28
  39. ^ Ne 9:18
  40. ^ Ex 32:10
  41. ^ Ex 32:11, 14; De 10:10; Ps 106:23
  42. ^ Ex 32:2, 21, 35
  43. ^ Pr 15:29; Jm 5:16
  44. ^ Ex 32:4
  45. ^ Ex 32:20; Is 30:22
  46. ^ Nu 11:3
  47. ^ Ex 17:7; De 6:16
  48. ^ Nu 11:4, 34
  49. ^ De 9:7
  50. ^ Nu 13:26; De 1:19
  51. ^ Nu 14:3, 4; Is 63:10
  52. ^ De 1:32; Ps 106:24; Heb 3:19
  53. ^ Ps 106:25
  54. ^ De 31:27; Ac 7:51
  55. ^ Ex 34:28; De 9:18; Mt 4:2
  56. ^ De 9:19
  57. ^ Ps 99:6; Pr 15:29; Jm 5:16
  58. ^ Ex 19:5; De 32:9; Ps 135:4; Am 3:2
  59. ^ 1Ki 8:51
  60. ^ Ex 32:11; Ps 99:6
  61. ^ Ex 3:6; 6:8; De 9:5
  62. ^ Ex 32:31; Ps 78:8; Mc 7:18
  63. ^ De 5:6
  64. ^ Ex 32:12; Nu 14:16; Ps 115:2
  65. ^ De 4:20; 1Ki 8:51; Ne 1:10; Ps 74:2; 95:7; 100:3
  66. ^ Ex 6:6; De 4:34; Is 63:12

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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