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"The Lord was angry with me because of you. He swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not go into the good land the Lord your God is giving you for your own.

So watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the agreement the Lord your God made with you, or make a false god for yourselves that looks like something which the Lord your God has told you not to do.

For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, a jealous God.

"When you become the father of children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, if you become sinful and make a god that looks like anything, and anger the Lord your God by doing what is bad in His eyes,

But from there you will look for the Lord your God. And you will find Him if you look for Him with all your heart and soul.

When you are in trouble and all these things have happened to you in later days, you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice.

For the Lord your God is a God of loving-pity. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the agreement He promised to your fathers.

"Ask about the past days, the days before your time, since the day that God made man on the earth. Ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing? Has anything been heard like it?

Have any people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the center of the fire, as you have heard it, and still live?

Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation, by trials, special things to see, great works, war, a powerful hand, a long arm, and spreading much fear? The Lord your God did this for you in Egypt in front of your eyes.

It was shown to you so you might know that the Lord is God. There is no other except Him.

So know this day, take it to your heart, that the Lord is God in the heavens above and on the earth below. There is no other.

Keep His Laws which I am giving you today. Then it may go well with you and your children after you. And you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you for all time."

The Lord our God made an agreement with us at Mount Sinai.

‘I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house where you were servants.

‘Do not make a false god for yourselves, or anything that is like what is in heaven above or on the earth below or in the water under the earth.

Do not bow down to them or serve them. I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. I punish the children, the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren for the sins of their fathers who hate Me.

‘Do not use the name of the Lord your God in a bad way. For the Lord will punish the one who uses His name in a bad way.

‘Remember the Day of Rest, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God told you.

But the seventh day is a Day of Rest to the Lord your God. You, your son, your daughter, your man servant, your woman servant, your bull, donkey or any of your cattle, or the traveler who stays with you, must not do any work on this day. So your man servant and woman servant may rest as well as you.