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Jewish Publication Society (1917)
JPS
The Second Book of Clement
2Clem
[1]Hear, O Israel: thou art to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, [No book]
[2]A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say: 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?' [No book]
[3]Know therefore this day, that ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ thy God is He who goeth over before thee as a devouring fire; He will destroy them, and He will bring them down before thee; so shalt thou drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ hath spoken unto thee. [No book]
[4]Speak not thou in thy heart, after that ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ thy God hath thrust them out from before thee, saying: 'For my righteousness ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ hath brought me in to possess this land'; whereas for the wickedness of these nations ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ doth drive them out from before thee. [No book]
[5]Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that He may establish the word which ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. [No book]
[6]Know therefore that it is not for thy righteousness tha ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ thy God giveth thee this good land to possess it; for thou art a stiffnecked people. [No book]
[7]Remember, forget thou not, how thou didst make ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ thy God wroth in the wilderness; from the day that thou didst go forth out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎. [No book]
[8]Also in Horeb ye made ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ wroth, and ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ was angered with you to have destroyed you. [No book]
[9]When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water. [No book]
[10]And ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ delivered unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. [No book]
[11]And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. [No book]
[12]And ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ said unto me: 'Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have dealt corruptly; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.' [No book]
[13]Furthermore ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ spoke unto me, saying: 'I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people; [No book]
[14]Let Me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.' [No book]
[15]So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. [No book]
[16]And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ your God; ye had made you a molten calf; ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ had commanded you. [No book]
[17]And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. [No book]
[18]And I fell down before ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎, to provoke Him. [No book]
[19]For I was in dread of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ was wroth against you to destroy you. But ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ hearkened unto me that time also. [No book]
[20]Moreover ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him; and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. [No book]
[21]And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and beat it in pieces, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.— [No book]
[22]And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye made ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ wroth. [No book]
[23]And when ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying: 'Go up and possess the land which I have given you'; then ye rebelled against the commandment of ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ your God, and ye believed Him not, nor hearkened to His voice. [No book]
[24]Ye have been rebellious against ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ from the day that I knew you.— [No book]
[25]So I fell down before ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ the forty days and forty nights that I fell down; because ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ had said He would destroy you. [No book]
[26]And I prayed unto ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎, and said: 'O Lord ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎, destroy not Thy people and Thine inheritance, that Thou hast redeemed through Thy greatness, that Thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. [No book]
[27]Remember Thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin; [No book]
[28]Lest the land whence Thou broughtest us out say: Because ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ was not able to bring them into the land which He promised unto them, and because He hated them, He hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. [No book]
[29]Yet they are Thy people and Thine inheritance, that Thou didst bring out by Thy great power and by Thy outstretched arm.' [No book]
Translation: Jewish Publication Society (1917)
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Translation: Charles H. Hoole (1885)
Source: www.earlychristianwritings.com
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