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28 Be careful to obey[a] all these things that I am commanding you, so that it will go well[b] for you and for your children after you forever,[c] because then you will be doing what is[d] good and right[e] in the eyes of Yahweh your God.

29 “When Yahweh your God has cut off the nations whom you are about to go to,[f] to dispossess them before you,[g] and you have dispossessed them, and you live in their land, 30 take care[h] so that you are not ensnared into imitating them[i] after their being destroyed from before you,[j] and so that you not enquire concerning their gods, saying,[k] ‘How did these nations serve their gods, and thus I myself[l] want to do also.’

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 12:28 Literally “Watch carefully and listen”
  2. Deuteronomy 12:28 Literally “he/it is good”
  3. Deuteronomy 12:28 Literally “until ever”
  4. Deuteronomy 12:28 Hebrew “the”
  5. Deuteronomy 12:28 Hebrew “the right”
  6. Deuteronomy 12:29 Literally “about to go to there”
  7. Deuteronomy 12:29 Literally “from the face of you”
  8. Deuteronomy 12:30 Literally “Watch for yourself”
  9. Deuteronomy 12:30 Literally “after them”
  10. Deuteronomy 12:30 Literally “from the face of you”
  11. Deuteronomy 12:30 Literally “to say”
  12. Deuteronomy 12:30 Emphatic use of the pronoun