Deuteronomy 4:25-49

25After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time—if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God and arousing his anger,

26I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed.

27The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.

28There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

29But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.

30When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the Lord your God and obey him.

31For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.

32Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?

33Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?

34Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

35You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides him there is no other.

36From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire.

37Because he loved your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength,

38to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance, as it is today.

39Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.

40Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.

41Then Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan,

42to which anyone who had killed a person could flee if they had unintentionally killed a neighbor without malice aforethought. They could flee into one of these cities and save their life.

43The cities were these: Bezer in the wilderness plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

44This is the law Moses set before the Israelites.

45These are the stipulations, decrees and laws Moses gave them when they came out of Egypt

46and were in the valley near Beth Peor east of the Jordan, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites as they came out of Egypt.

47They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan.

48This land extended from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge to Mount Sirion (that is, Hermon),

49and included all the Arabah east of the Jordan, as far as the Dead Sea, below the slopes of Pisgah.