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6 »Understand this! It is not because you have been living right that Jehovah your God is giving you this good land to possess. You are a rebellious and impossible (stiff-necked) (stubborn) people!
7 »Never forget how you made Jehovah your God angry in the desert. You rebelled against Jehovah from the day you left Egypt until you came here.
8 »Even at Mount Horeb you made Jehovah so angry that he wanted to destroy you.
9 »When I went up on the mountain to get the stone tablets, the tablets of the promise that Jehovah made to you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights without food or water.
10 »Then Jehovah gave me the two stone tablets inscribed by God’s finger (Holy Spirit). On them were written all the words Jehovah spoke to you from the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.
11 »At the end of forty days and nights Jehovah gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.
12 »Jehovah said to me: ‘Go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them. They have made a cast-idol for themselves.’
13 »‘Jehovah spoke further to me: ‘I have seen this people. They are a very stubborn people.