And you shall know this day, that [it is] not for your righteousnesses that the Lord your God gives to you this good land to inherit, for you are a stiff-necked people.

For I know your provocation, and your stiff neck; for yet during my life with you at this day, you have been provoking in your conduct toward God: how shall you not also be so after my death?

But they and our fathers behaved proudly, and hardened their neck, and did not hearken to Your commandments,

and refused to listen, and remembered not Your wonders which You worked among them. And they hardened their neck, and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You, O God, [are] merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy, and You did not forsake them.

But they turned, and revolted from You, and cast Your law behind their backs; and they killed Your prophets, who testified against them to turn them back to You, and they worked great provocations.

He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been thus.

"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, you also do.

Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear His voice,

Where your fathers tested Me, they tried Me, and saw My works forty years.