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There you will worship gods made by human hands—wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

They did not see the awesome deeds he performed in the midst of Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and his whole land,

They did not see what he did to you in the desert before you reached this place,

You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, for the Lord your God will be testing you to see if you love him with all your mind and being.

This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the Lord your God: "Please do not make us hear the voice of the Lord our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die."

When you go to war against your enemies and see chariotry and troops who outnumber you, do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you.

if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,

When you see your neighbor's ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor.

When you see your neighbor's donkey or ox fallen along the road, do not ignore it; instead, you must be sure to help him get the animal on its feet again.

For the Lord your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the Lord , and they will respect you.

In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!' And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!' because of the things you will fear and the things you will see.

Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you."

The generation to come—your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places—will see the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the Lord has brought on it.

He said, "I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty.

"See now that I, indeed I, am he!" says the Lord , "and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.

You will see the land before you, but you will not enter the land that I am giving to the Israelites."

Then the Lord said to him, "This is the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.' I have let you see it, but you will not cross over there."

and commanded the people: "When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God being carried by the Levitical priests, you must leave here and walk behind it.