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25 “When you have had children and grandchildren[a] and you have grown old in the land and you act corruptly and you make a divine image of the form of anything and you do evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God, thus provoking him to anger, 26 I call[b] to witness against you today the heaven and the earth, that you will perish soon and completely from the land that you are crossing the Jordan into it to take possession of it; you will not live long on it,[c] but you will be completely destroyed. 27 And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number[d] among the nations to where Yahweh will lead you.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 4:25 Literally “children of children”
  2. Deuteronomy 4:26 Or “I shall call to witness”
  3. Deuteronomy 4:26 Literally “you will not extend days”
  4. Deuteronomy 4:27 Literally “people of number,” as opposed to people without number
  5. Deuteronomy 4:27 Literally “he will lead Yahweh you there”