19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. Therefore, I must die in this land and will not pass the Jordan, but ye shall pass and inherit that good land.
23. 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.
24. For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
25. 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,
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29. 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.
30. 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
31. (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.
32. Ask, therefore, now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has any other been heard like it?
33. Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and lived?
34. Or has God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs and by wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35. Unto thee it was shown that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is no one else other than he.
36. Out of the heavens he made thee to hear his voice that he might instruct thee, and upon earth he showed thee his great fire, and thou hast heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
37. And because he loved thy fathers, therefore, he chose their seed after them and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt,
38. to drive out Gentiles 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.
39. Know therefore this day and consider it in thine heart that the Lord is the only God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath; there is no other.