11. You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire into the heavens and enveloped in a dense, black cloud.
12. Then the Lord spoke to you from the fire. You kept hearing the sound of the words, but didn’t see a form; there was only a voice.
13. He declared His covenant to you. He commanded you to follow the Ten Commandments, which He wrote on two stone tablets.
14. At that time the Lord commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to follow in the land you are about to cross into and possess.
15. “For your own good, be extremely careful — because you did not see any form on the day the Lord spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb —
16. not to act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of any figure: a male or female form,
17. or the form of any beast on the earth, any winged creature that flies in the sky,