³²“For ask now about former ages, long before your own, ever since the day that God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of heaven to the other: Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has its like ever been heard of?^* ³³Has any people ever heard the voice of a god speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and lived?^* ³⁴Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by terrifying displays of power, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?^* ³⁵To you it was shown so that you would acknowledge that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.^* ³⁶From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, while you heard his words coming out of the fire.^* ³⁷And because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants after them. He brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,^*

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Cross references

*Gen 1:27; Deut 28:64; 32:7
*Ex 20:22; Deut 5:24, 26
*Ex 6:6; 7:3; 13:3; Deut 7:19; 26:8; 34:12
*Deut 32:39; 1 Sam 2:2; Isa 45:5, 18; Mk 12:29
*Ex 19:9, 19; Heb 12:18
*Ex 13:3, 9, 14; Deut 10:15