Deuteronomy 4:5-31

5See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Jehovah my 1God commanded me, that ye may do so in the land into which ye enter to possess it.

6And ye shall keep and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Verily this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

7For what great nation is there that hath 2God near to them as Jehovah our 3God is in everything we call upon him for?

8And what great nation is there that hath righteous statutes and ordinances, as all this law which I set before you this day?

9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things that thine eyes have seen (and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but thou shalt make them known to thy sons and to thy sons' sons),

10the day that thou stoodest before Jehovah thy 4God in Horeb, when Jehovah said to me, Gather me the people together, that I may cause them to hear my words, that they may learn them, and fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and teach them to their children.

11And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and obscurity.

12And Jehovah spoke to you from the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but ye saw no form; only [ye heard] a voice.

13And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, the ten words; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.

14And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it.

15And take great heed to your souls (for ye saw no form on the day that Jehovah spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire),

16lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the form of any figure, the pattern of male or female,

17the pattern of any beast that is on the earth, the pattern of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,

18the pattern of anything that creepeth on the ground, the pattern of any fish that is in the waters under the earth;

19and lest thou lift up thine eyes to the heavens, and see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, the whole host of heaven, and be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, which Jehovah thy 5God hath assigned unto all peoples under the whole heaven.

20But you hath Jehovah taken, and hath brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, that ye might be to him a people of inheritance, as it is this day.

21And Jehovah was angry with me on your account, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not enter in to that good land which Jehovah thy 6God giveth thee [for] an inheritance;

22for I shall die in this land, I shall not go over the Jordan; but ye shall go over, and possess this good land.

23Take heed to yourselves lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your 7God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a graven image, the form of anything which Jehovah thy 8God hath forbidden thee.

24For Jehovah thy 9God is a consuming fire, a jealous 10God.

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 11God, 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 12gods, 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 13God, 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 14God, and shalt hearken to his voice,

31— for Jehovah thy 15God is a merciful 16God, — he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he swore unto them.