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whatever reason we may call upon Him? And yourselves a carved image in the form of any-
what great nation is there that has such statutes thing which the LORD your God has forbidden
and righteous judgments as are in all this law you. For the LORD your God is a consuming
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which I set before you this day? Only take fire, a jealous God.
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heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, 25 “When you beget children and grandchil-
lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, dren and have grown old in the land, and act
and lest they depart from your heart all the corruptly and make a carved image in the
days of your life. And teach them to your chil- form of anything, and do evil in the sight of the
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dren and your grandchildren, especially con- LORD your God to provoke Him to anger, I
cerning the day you stood before the LORD call heaven and earth to witness against you
your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, this day, that you will soon utterly perish from
‘Gather the people to Me, and I will let them the land which you cross over the Jordan to
hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me possess; you will not prolong your days in it, but
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all the days they live on the earth, and that will be utterly destroyed. And the LORD will
they may teach their children.’ scatter you among the peoples, and you will be
11 “Then you came near and stood at the foot left few in number among the nations where
of the mountain, and the mountain burned the LORD will drive you. And there you will
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with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and
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cloud, and thick darkness. And the LORD stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor
spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You smell. But from there you will seek the LORD
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heard the sound of the words, but saw no your God, and you will find Him if you seek
form; you only heard a voice. So He declared Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
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to you His covenant which He commanded you 30 When you are in distress, and all these
to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He things come upon you in the latter days, when
wrote them on two tablets of stone. And the you turn to the LORD your God and obey His
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LORD commanded me at that time to teach you voice (for the LORD your God is a merciful
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statutes and judgments, that you might ob- God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you,
serve them in the land which you cross over nor forget the covenant of your fathers which
to possess. He swore to them.
15 “Take careful heed to yourselves, for you 32 “For ask now concerning the days that are
saw no form when the LORD spoke to you at past, which were before you, since the day
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Horeb out of the midst of the fire, lest you act that God created man on the earth, and ask
corruptly and make for yourselves a carved from one end of heaven to the other, whether
image in the form of any figure: the likeness of any great thing like this has happened, or any-
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male or female, the likeness of any animal thing like it has been heard. Did any people
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that is on the earth or the likeness of any ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the
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winged bird that flies in the air, the likeness midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
of anything that creeps on the ground or the 34 Or did God ever try to go and take for
likeness of any fish that is in the water beneath Himself a nation from the midst of another
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the earth. And take heed, lest you lift your nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war,
eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm,
moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, and by great terrors, according to all that the
you feel driven to worship them and serve LORD your God did for you in Egypt before
them, which the LORD your God has given to your eyes? To you it was shown, that you
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all the peoples under the whole heaven as a might know that the LORD Himself is God;
heritage. But the LORD has taken you and there is none other besides Him. Out of heav-
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brought you out of the iron furnace, out of en He let you hear His voice, that He might
Egypt, to be His people, an inheritance, as you instruct you; on earth He showed you His
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are this day. Furthermore the LORD was great fire, and you heard His words out of the
angry with me for your sakes, and swore that midst of the fire. And because He loved your
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I would not cross over the Jordan, and that I fathers, therefore He chose their descendants
would not enter the good land which the LORD after them; and He brought you out of Egypt
your God is giving you as an inheritance. But with His Presence, with His mighty power,
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I must die in this land, I must not cross over 38 driving out from before you nations greater
the Jordan; but you shall cross over and pos- and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give
sess that good land. Take heed to yourselves, you their land as an inheritance, as it is this
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lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your day. Therefore know this day, and consider it
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God which He made with you, and make for in your heart, that the LORD Himself is God in
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