Deuteronomy 4:24   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 4:25   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time-if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God and arousing his anger,

Deuteronomy 4:26   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:27   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.

Deuteronomy 4:28   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

Deuteronomy 4:29   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 4:30   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the Lord your God and obey him.

Deuteronomy 4:31   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.

Deuteronomy 4:32   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?

Deuteronomy 4:33   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?

Deuteronomy 4:34   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

Deuteronomy 4:35   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides him there is no other.

Deuteronomy 4:36   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire.

Deuteronomy 4:37   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

Because he loved your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength,

Deuteronomy 4:38   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 4:40   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.

Deuteronomy 5:1   (Read all of Deuteronomy 5)

Moses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them.

Deuteronomy 5:4   (Read all of Deuteronomy 5)

The Lord spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.

Deuteronomy 5:5   (Read all of Deuteronomy 5)

(At that time I stood between the Lord and you to declare to you the word of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) And he said:

Deuteronomy 5:6   (Read all of Deuteronomy 5)

"I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

Deuteronomy 5:7   (Read all of Deuteronomy 5)

"You shall have no other gods before me.

Deuteronomy 5:8   (Read all of Deuteronomy 5)

"You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

Deuteronomy 5:9   (Read all of Deuteronomy 5)

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

Deuteronomy 5:11   (Read all of Deuteronomy 5)

"You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.