Deuteronomy 9:6-10
Deuteronomy 9:6
“Know, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stubborn people.
Deuteronomy 9:7
Remember, do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to anger in the wilderness; from the day that you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.
Deuteronomy 9:8
Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to anger, and the Lord was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you.
Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I remained on the mountain for forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.
Deuteronomy 9:10
The Lord gave me the two tablets of stone written by the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.