Chapter 4
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So you shall watch yourselves very carefully, for you did not see any form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire.
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lest you corrupt yourselves and make for yourselves a statue, a likeness of any form, a pattern of male or female,
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the form of any beast that is on the earth, the form of any winged bird that flies in the heavens.
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the pattern of every creeping thing on the earth, the pattern of every fish that is in the waters below the earth.
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and lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and you are driven away and bow down to them and serve them, which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heavens.
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And you, the LORD took and brought out from an iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people for inheritance, as on this day.
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And the LORD was angry with me on account of your words and swore that I would not cross the Jordan and would not enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
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For I will die in this land; I will not cross the Jordan, but you will cross over and possess this good land.
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Take heed to yourselves lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image, the form of anything which the LORD your God has commanded.
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For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
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for you bear sons and sons' sons and grow old in the land and corrupt and make a carved image, the form of anything, and do evil in the eyes of the LORD your God to anger him.
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I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that you will perish quickly from the earth that you are crossing the Jordan to possess; you will not prolong your days upon it, because you will surely be destroyed.
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And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will remain few in number among the nations where the LORD will lead you.
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And there you will serve gods, the work of human hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
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You shall seek the LORD your God from there, and you shall find him, for you will seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.
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In your distress, when it finds you in all these words, in the latter days, if you return to the LORD your God and listen to his voice.
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For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors that he swore to them.