1 - 6 Unmerited Success
The Isrealites are told that anything they achieve is because of God's covenant to their fathers. "It is not because of your merits" - this line is repeated three times (in case they forget - they are, after all a "stiff-necked" people).
7 - 29 The Golden Calf
The Isrealites are reminded that they built a golden calf to worship, and that Moses had to plea for God not to "destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens" (13). Again, it is the covenant that God made that saved these "stiff-necked" people. God keeps his promises!
Question of the Day: J.P. - ask a question - I can't think of one tonight.
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My translation keeps saying the Isrealites are a "stiff-necked" people. I take that to mean stubborn. They are too stubborn to do what they know God wants them to do.
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