Deuteronomy 12:28-30

English Standard Version Anglicised

²⁸ Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, ^(A)that it may go well with you and with your children after you for ever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

Warning Against Idolatry

²⁹ “When ^(B)the Lord your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, ³⁰ take care ^(C)that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not enquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’