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Deuteronomy 4:12-21 Darby Translation 1890 (DARBY)

12. And Jehovah spoke to you from the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but ye saw no form; only ye heard a voice.

13. And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, the ten words; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.

14. And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it.

15. And take great heed to your souls (for ye saw no form on the day that Jehovah spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire),

16. lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the form of any figure, the pattern of male or female,

17. the pattern of any beast that is on the earth, the pattern of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,

18. the pattern of anything that creepeth on the ground, the pattern of any fish that is in the waters under the earth;

19. and lest thou lift up thine eyes to the heavens, and see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, the whole host of heaven, and be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath assigned unto all peoples under the whole heaven.

20. But you hath Jehovah taken, and hath brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, that ye might be to him a people of inheritance, as it is this day.

21. And Jehovah was angry with me on your account, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not enter in to that good land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance;

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