Deuteronomy 9

9 ¹Hear, Israel: today you go cross di Jordan go enter, go drive comot nations wey big pass you and strong pass you—big cities wey get wall wey reach sky. ²People wey plenty and tall, di pikin-pikin of di Anakim, wey you know and wey you don hear person talk say: “Who fit stand gidigba against Anak im sons?” ³Know am today: your Papa dey cross for your front like fire wey dey burn everything. Im go destroy dem and press dem down for your front; you go drive dem comot and finish dem sharp-sharp, as your Papa don tell you.

⁴After your Papa don drive dem comot for your front, no talk for your heart say, “Na because of my correct-and-holy way our Papa bring me come possess dis land”—na because of di evil of dis nations dem make im dey drive dem comot for your front. ⁵No be because of your correct-and-holy way or di clean heart wey you get make you dey enter go take dem land, but na because of di evil of dis nations make your Papa dey drive dem comot for your front, and to keep di word wey your Papa swear give your fathers—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ⁶Know am then: your Papa dey give you dis good land make e be your own, no be because of your correct-and-holy way, because you be stubborn people.

People Wey Test Dem Papa

⁷Remember, no forget how you vex your Papa for di wilderness. From di day you comot Egypt reach dis place, you don dey rebel against your Papa. ⁸For Horeb you vex your Papa, and your Papa vex with you well-well reach say im ready to destroy you. ^a a v8 Horeb na anoda name for Mount Sinai, di mountain wey our Papa give di Covenant. ⁹As I climb di mountain go collect di stone tablets, di tablets of di Covenant wey your Papa make with you, I stay for di mountain forty days and forty nights, I no chop bread and I no drink water. ¹⁰Your Papa give me di two stone tablets, wey im finger write, wey carry all di words wey im talk with you for di mountain from inside di fire, for di day of di gathering. ¹¹After forty days and forty nights, your Papa give me di two stone tablets, di tablets of di Covenant.

¹²Then your Papa tell me, “Get up, hurry comot down from here, because your people wey you bring comot from Egypt don spoil demsef. Dem quick turn from di way wey I command dem; dem make idol wey dem cast for demsef.”

¹³Moreover, your Papa talk give me, “I don see dis people—dem be stubborn people. ¹⁴Leave me alone; I go destroy dem, rub dem name comot from under heaven, and make you nation wey strong pass and plenty pass dem.”

¹⁵So I turn come down from di mountain while e dey burn with fire, di two tablets of di Covenant for my two hand. ¹⁶As I look, I see say you don sin against your Papa: you don make calf wey una cast for unasef, una quick turn from di way wey your Papa command una. ¹⁷So I grab di two tablets, throway dem from my hand, and break dem for your eyes front. ¹⁸I fall down for your Papa front like before, forty days and forty nights, I no chop bread, I no drink water, because of all di sin wey una commit, una dey do evil for your Papa eyes, dey provoke am. ¹⁹Because I fear di anger and di hot vex wey your Papa hold against una, wey im ready to destroy una. But your Papa hear me dat time too. ²⁰Your Papa vex well-well with Aaron, im ready to destroy am, so I pray for Aaron dat time too. ²¹I take your sin, di calf wey una make, burn am for fire, mash am, grind am well-well until e fine like dust, then I throway im dust inside di stream wey dey run down from di mountain. ²²For Taberah also, and for Massah, and for Kibroth-hattaavah una provoke your Papa make im vex. ²³When your Papa send una from Kadesh-barnea talk say, “Go up, take di land wey I give una,” una rebel against di command of your Papa, una no believe am or obey im voice. ²⁴Una don dey rebel against your Papa from di day wey I know una. ²⁵So I fall down for your Papa front for dat forty days and forty nights wey I lie down for there, because your Papa don talk say im go destroy una. ²⁶I pray to your Papa, “My Papa wey be Oga over all, no destroy your people, your heritage, wey you redeem with your greatness and bring comot from Egypt with strong hand. ^b b v26 Moses fall down for our Papa front and beg for di people wey im no fit save by imsef — na shadow of di greater Mediator, Jesus, wey go stand between our Papa and im children to beg for dem. ²⁷Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. No look di stubbornness of dis people, dem evil, dem sin. ²⁸If not, di people of di land wey you bring us comot go talk say, ‘God no fit bring dem enter di land wey im promise dem, and im hate dem, so im bring dem comot to kill dem for di wilderness.’ ²⁹Because dem na your people, your inheritance, wey you bring comot with your great power and your arm wey you stretch out.”