26. 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.
27. 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.
28. There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29. But from there you shall seek the Lord your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30. When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to the Lord your God, and listen to his voice.
31. For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
32. For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
33. Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
34. Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35. It was shown to you so that you might know that the Lord is God. There is no one else besides him.
36. Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.
37. Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
38. to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.
39. Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that the Lord himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.
40. You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord your God gives you, forever.
41. Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;
42. that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
43. Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.
44. This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
45. These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,