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Deuteronomy 4:24
βFor Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.β
Verse in context β Deuteronomy 4
but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.
Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to anger;
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
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Mosesβ final speeches, reminding Israel of Godβs law before entering the Promised Land.
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