When you father children and children’s children, and you have been long in the land, and then corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in the LORD your God’s sight to provoke him to anger,
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Deuteronomy 4:25 in context
Deuteronomy 4:22–28
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but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land.
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Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.
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For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
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When you father children and children’s children, and you have been long in the land, and then corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in the LORD your God’s sight to provoke him to anger,
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I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.
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The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will lead you away.
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There you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
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