“Indeed, ask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?

To you it was shown that you might know that the Lord, He is God; there is no other besides Him.

Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that the Lord, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

‘You shall have no other gods before Me.

You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,

For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and He will quickly destroy you.

It shall come about if you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods and worship them.

and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, by following other gods which you have not known.

and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them,’

“If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (whom neither you nor your fathers have known,

of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end),

some worthless men have gone out from among you and have seduced the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (whom you have not known),

and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, which I have not commanded,

But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’

“If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,

and do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

The Lord will bring you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.

Moreover, the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.

They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted to them.

But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,

But I will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they will do, for they will turn to other gods.

For when I bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to their fathers, and they have eaten and are satisfied and become prosperous, then they will turn to other gods and serve them, and spurn Me and break My covenant.