15Therefore keep yourselves carefully, for you have not seen any likeness on the day when the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire.16Lest you ruin yourselves and make for yourselves an idol, the likeness of any form, the pattern of male or female.17The pattern of any animal that is on the earth, the pattern of any winged bird that flies in the heavens.18The pattern of any creeping thing on the ground, the pattern of any fish that is in the water under the earth.19And lest you lift your eyes to the heavens and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under all the heavens.20But the LORD took you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be for him a people of inheritance, as it is this day.21The LORD was angry with me because of your words and swore that I would not cross the Jordan and that I would not enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.22For I am dying in this land; I am not crossing the Jordan, but you are crossing and will possess this good land.23Therefore watch yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he cut with you and make for yourselves an idol, the likeness of anything that the LORD your God has commanded you.24For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.25When you beget children and children of children and grow old in the land and act corruptly and make an idol, the likeness of anything, and do what is evil in the eyes of the LORD your God to provoke him to anger.26I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day that you will surely perish quickly from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess; you will not prolong your days upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.27The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will remain few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.28There you will serve gods, the work of human hands, wood and stone, that neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.29But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find him, for you will search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.30When you are in distress and all these things have found you, in the latter days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to his voice.31For the LORD your God is a compassionate God; he will not slacken his hand toward you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.