23. So watch yourselves, that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything against which the Lord your God has commanded you.
24. For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
25. "When you become the father of children and children's children and have remained long in the land, and act corruptly, and make an idol in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord your God so as to provoke Him to anger,
26. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will surely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed.
27. The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you.
28. There you will serve gods, the work of man's hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
29. But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.