Deuteronomy 4:4–20

⁴But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day. ⁵Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. ⁶Keep therefore and do them; for this is ^dyour wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, ^eSurely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. ⁷For ^fwhat nation is there so great, who hath ^gGod so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? ⁸And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? ⁹Only take heed to thyself, and ^hkeep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but ⁱteach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons; ¹⁰Specially ^kthe day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children. ¹¹And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the ^lmountain burned with fire unto the ^†midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. ^12mAnd the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ⁿye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; ^o†only ye heard a voice. ^13pAnd he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten ^qcommandments; and ^rhe wrote them upon two tables of stone. ¹⁴And ^sthe Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. ^15tTake ye therefore good heed unto ^tyourselves; for ye saw no manner of ^usimilitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: ¹⁶Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and ^xmake you a graven image, the similitude of any ^yfigure, ^zthe likeness of male or female, ¹⁷The ^zlikeness of any beast that is on the earth, the ^zlikeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, ¹⁸The ^zlikeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the ^zlikeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: ¹⁹And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest ^athe sun, and the moon, and the stars, even ^ball the host of heaven, ^cshouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath ^||divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. ²⁰But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth ^dout of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people ^eof inheritance, as ye are this day.