Study Desk

"Only be careful. Keep watch over your life. Or you might forget the things you have seen. Do not let them leave your heart for the rest of your life. But teach them to your children and to your grandchildren.

The Lord told me at that time to teach you Laws. So you might obey them in the land that you are going to have for your own.

"So watch yourselves and be careful. For you saw no body on the day the Lord spoke to you in the fire at Mount Sinai.

Do not become sinful and make a false god for yourselves that looks like a body or object, like a male or female,

"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.

For I must die in this land. I will not cross the Jordan. But you will cross and take that good land 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.

I call heaven and earth to speak against you this day. You will soon be destroyed from the land you are crossing the Jordan to have for your own. You will not live long on it, but will all be destroyed.

There you will work for gods made by man's hands out of wood and stone. They do not see or hear or eat or smell.

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.

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.

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.

He drove out from in front of you nations greater and more powerful than you. And He brought you in and gave you their land for your own, as it is today.

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."

Bezer in the desert on the plain for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

They took for their own his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, east of the Jordan,

I was standing between the Lord and you then, to tell you the Word of the Lord. For you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up the mountain. He said:

‘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.