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Deuteronomy 4:23

Verse 23 of 49. The 4th of 34 chapters in Deuteronomy, in The Law.

19and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

20But the LORD has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

21Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance;

22but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land.

23Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.

24For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

25When you father children and children’s children, and you have been long in the land, and then corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in the LORD your God’s sight to provoke him to anger,

26I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.

27The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will lead you away.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.