25 “When you father children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, ^land you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and ^mby doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, so as to provoke him to anger, 26 I ⁿcall heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed. 27 And the Lord ^owill scatter you among the peoples, ^pand you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you. 28 And ^qthere you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, ^rthat neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

16 And the Lord said to Moses, ^b“Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and ^ewhore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will ^fforsake me and ^gbreak my covenant that I have made with them. 17 Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and ^hI will forsake them and ⁱhide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, ^j‘Have not these evils come upon us because ^kour God is not among us?’ 18 And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because ^lthey have turned to other gods.

27 For I know how rebellious and ^cstubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, ^dyou have been rebellious against the Lord. How much more after my death! 28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak ^ethese words in their ears and ^fcall heaven and earth to witness against them. 29 For I know that after my death ^gyou will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And ^hin the days to come ⁱevil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, ^jprovoking him to anger through the work of your hands.”