20. But 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.
21. And 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 God giveth thee for an inheritance;
22. for I shall die in this land, I shall not go over the Jordan; but ye shall go over, and possess this good land.
23. Take heed to yourselves lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God which he made with you, and make yourselves a graven image, the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee.
24. For Jehovah thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous ·God
25. When 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 God to provoke him to anger,
26. I 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.
27. And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left a small company among the nations to which Jehovah will lead you.
28. And ye shall there serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29. And from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God and thou shalt find him, if thou shalt seek him with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul.
30. In thy tribulation, and when all these things shall come upon thee, at the end of days, thou shalt return to Jehovah thy God and shalt hearken to his voice,
31. --for Jehovah 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.
32. For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God 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?
33. Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
34. Or hath God 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 God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35. Unto thee it was shewn, that thou mightest know that Jehovah, he is God --there is none other besides him.
36. From 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.