Deuteronomy:4:15-31

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* Diligently guard , therefore , your souls , for ye saw no manner of likeness on the day [that ] the LORD spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire , * lest ye corrupt [yourselves ] and make yourselves a graven image , the similitude of any figure , the likeness of male or female , * the likeness of any beast that [is ] on the earth , the likeness of any winged fowl that flies in the air , * the likeness of any animal that moves on the ground , the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth , * And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven , and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars , [even ] all the host of heaven , [and ] should be driven to worship them and serve them because the LORD thy God has conceded them unto all the peoples under all the heavens . * But the LORD has taken you and brought you forth out of the iron furnace , [even ] out of Egypt , to be unto him the people of [his ] inheritance , as [ye are ] this day . * Furthermore , the LORD was angry with me for your sakes and swore that I should not go over Jordan and that I should not go in unto that good land , which the LORD thy God gives thee [for ] an inheritance . * Therefore , I must die in this land and will not pass the Jordan , but ye shall pass and inherit that good land . * Keep yourselves , do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God , which he established with you , and make yourselves a graven image [or ] the likeness of any [thing ], which the LORD thy God has forbidden thee . * For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire , [even ] a jealous God . * When thou shalt beget children and grandchildren and ye shall have remained long in the land and shall corrupt [yourselves ] and make a graven image or the likeness of any [thing ] and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God , to provoke him to anger , * I put heaven and earth as witnesses today that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land unto which ye pass the Jordan to inherit it ; ye shall not prolong [your ] days upon it without being utterly destroyed . * And the LORD shall scatter you among the peoples , and ye shall be left few in number among the Gentiles , unto whom the LORD shall take you . * And there ye shall serve gods , the work of men 's hands , wood and stone , which neither see , nor hear , nor eat , nor smell . * But if from there , thou shalt seek the LORD thy God , thou shalt find [him ] if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul . * When thou art in trouble and all these things are come upon thee , if in the latter days thou shalt turn to the LORD thy God and shalt hear his voice * (for the LORD thy God [is ] a merciful God ), he will not forsake thee , neither destroy thee , nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he swore unto them .

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