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.