Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.

Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.

Deut 11:16

¹⁶ Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them. ¹⁷ Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you.

Deut 12:13, 19, 23, 30

¹³ Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings anywhere you please. ¹⁴ Offer them only at the place the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, and there observe everything I command you.

¹⁹ Be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.

²³ But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. ²⁴ You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water. ²⁵ Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

Be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.”

We learn the following from the above verses

1)    Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.

2)    Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings anywhere you please. ¹⁴ Offer them only at the place the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, and there observe everything I command you.

3)    Be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.

4)    But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. ²⁴ You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water. ²⁵ Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

5)    Be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.”