But as for you, turn around and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea.”

You came back and wept before the Lord, but he paid no attention to your weeping and turned a deaf ear to you.

Wanderings in the Wilderness

Then we turned back and set out toward the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea, as the Lord had directed me. For a long time we made our way around the hill country of Seir.

“You have made your way around this hill country long enough; now turn north.

So we went on past our relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion Geber, and traveled along the desert road of Moab.

“Let us pass through your country. We will stay on the main road; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left.

Defeat of Og King of Bashan

Next we turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan with his whole army marched out to meet us in battle at Edrei.

So be careful to do what the Lord your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left.

for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.

Then the Lord told me, “Go down from here at once, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt. They have turned away quickly from what I commanded them and have made an idol for themselves.”

So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you.

Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.

the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the Lord your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.

Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

and none of the condemned things are to be found in your hands. Then the Lord will turn from his fierce anger, will show you mercy, and will have compassion on you. He will increase your numbers, as he promised on oath to your ancestors—

Act according to whatever they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left.

and not consider himself better than his fellow Israelites and turn from the law to the right or to the left. Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel.

However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you.

For the Lord your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.

Then say to the Lord your God: “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, according to all you commanded. I have not turned aside from your commands nor have I forgotten any of them.

Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.

The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.