These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall take heed to do in the land which Jehovah the God of your fathers has given to you, to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth:
If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, shall entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you and your fathers,
And now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that you may live and go in, and possess the land which Jehovah the God of your fathers is giving to you.
See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, as Jehovah my God has commanded me to do so, in the midst of the land where you are going in, to possess it,
Take heed to yourself, lest you forget Jehovah your God so as not to keep His commandments, and His judgments, and His statutes, which I am commanding you today;