Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:

And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken:

And all the responsible men of that town which is nearest to the dead man, washing their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the valley,

For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you.