12 And the Lord said unto me, (A)Arise, get thee down quickly from hence: for thy people which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have [a]corrupt their ways: they are soon turned out of the way which I commanded them, they have made them a molten image.

13 Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

14 [b]Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and put out their name from under heaven, and I will make of thee a mighty nation and greater than they be.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 9:12 So soon as man declineth from the obedience of God, his ways are corrupt.
  2. Deuteronomy 9:14 Signifying that the prayers of the faithful are a bar to stay God’s anger that he consume not all.

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