the gods of the surrounding people (whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth ¹  to the other).

At the end of every three years you must bring all the tithe of your produce, in that very year, and you must store it up in your villages.

Even if your exiles are in the most distant land, ¹  from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back.

Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind ¹  on the earth, and ask ²  from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.

The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.

The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth ¹  as the eagle flies, ²  a nation whose language you will not understand,