Deuteronomy chapter 4 verses 15 through 49

Idolatry forbidden

Therefore watch yourselves very carefully since you saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Herob

Out of the midst of the fire,

beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure,

the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth,

the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground,

the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth, and beware lest you raise your

eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven,

you will be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all

the peoples under the whole heaven. But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace,

out of Egypt, to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day. Furthermore, the Lord was

angry with me because of you, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

For I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and take possession of that good land.

Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you,

and made a carved image, the form of anything that the Lord your God has forbidden you. For the Lord

your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. When you father children and children's children,

and have grown old in the land, and you act corruptly

by making a carved image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the side of the

Lord, you are God, so as to provoke him to anger, I call heaven and earth to witness against

you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan

to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed,

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