Deuteronomy 4:32–38

³²“For ^rask now concerning the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask ^sfrom one end of heaven to the other, whether any great thing like this has happened, or anything like it has been heard. ^33tDid any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? ³⁴Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, ^uby trials, ^vby signs, by wonders, by war, ^wby a mighty hand and ^xan outstretched arm, ^yand by great ¹terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? ³⁵To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord Himself is God; ^zthere is none other besides Him. ^36aOut of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might instruct you; on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire. ³⁷And because ^bHe loved your fathers, therefore He chose their ²descendants after them; and ^cHe brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power, ^38ddriving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day.