³²“Yes, ask, please, about former days that preceded you^b from the day that God created humankind on the earth; ask even from one end of the heaven up to the other end of heaven whether anything ever happened^c like this great thing or whether anything like it was ever heard.^d ³³Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, just as you heard it, and lived? ³⁴Or has a god ever attempted to go to take for himself^e a nation from the midst of a nation, using trials and signs and wonders and war, with an outstretched arm and with great and awesome deeds, like all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? ³⁵You yourselves^f were shown this wonder in order for you to acknowledge that Yahweh is the God;^g there is no other God besides him.^h ³⁶From heaven he made you hear his voice to teach you, and on the earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from the midst of the fire. ³⁷And because he loved your ancestorsⁱ he chose their descendants^j after them. And he brought you forth from Egypt with his own presence,^k by his great strength, ³⁸to drive out nations greater and more numerous than you from before you,^l to bring you and to give to you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day.

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Footnotes

bLiterally “that they were to the face of you”
cLiterally “was it ever”
dLiterally “was it ever heard as it”
eHebrew “for him”
fEmphatic use of pronoun; plural meaning implied
gThe definite article indicates that Israel’s God is alone the true God and the one who revealed himself to them
hLiterally “except him” or “to him alone”
iOr “fathers”
jLiterally “seed”
kLiterally “with his faces”
lLiterally “from your face”