Deuteronomy 4:25-49

25When thou begettest sons, and sons' sons, and ye have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, the form of anything, and do evil in the sight of Jehovah thy 1God, to provoke him to anger, 26I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it: ye shall not prolong your days on it, but shall be utterly destroyed. 27And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left a small company among the nations to which Jehovah will lead you. 28And ye shall there serve 2gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 29And from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy 3God, and thou shalt find him, if thou shalt seek him with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul. 30In thy tribulation, and when all these things shall come upon thee, at the end of days, thou shalt return to Jehovah thy 4God, and shalt hearken to his voice, 31— for Jehovah thy 5God is a merciful 6God, — he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he swore unto them. 32For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that 7God created man on the earth, and from one end of the heavens to the other end of the heavens, whether there hath been anything as this great thing is, or if anything hath been heard like it? 33Did [ever] people hear the voice of 8God speaking from the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live? 34Or hath 9God essayed to come to take him a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a powerful hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your 10God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35Unto thee it was shewn, that thou mightest know that Jehovah, he is 11God — there is none other besides him. 36From the heavens he made thee hear his voice, that he might instruct thee; and on the earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words from the midst of the fire. 37And because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, he brought thee out with his countenance, with his great power, out of Egypt, 38to dispossess nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. 39Thou shalt know therefore this day, and consider it in thy heart, that Jehovah, he is 12God in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath: [there is] none else. 40And thou shalt keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days on the land which Jehovah thy 13God giveth thee, for ever. 41Then Moses separated three cities on this side the Jordan toward the sun-rising, 42that the manslayer might flee thither, who should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not previously, that fleeing to one of these cities, he might live: 43Bezer in the wilderness, in the plateau, of the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites. 44And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: 45these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances that Moses declared to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt, 46on this side the Jordan, in the valley opposite to Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote when they came out of Egypt; 47and they took possession of his land, and the land of Og the king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on this side the Jordan, toward the sun-rising; 48from Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, as far as mount Sion, which is Hermon, 49and all the plain on this side the Jordan, eastward, and as far as the sea of the plain, under the slopes of Pisgah.