7. For what great nation is there that has a god near to it as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call to Him?
8. And what great nation has righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?
9. “Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you don’t forget the things your eyes have seen and so that they don’t slip from your mind as long as you live. Teach them to your children and your grandchildren.
10. The day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people before Me, and I will let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth and may instruct their children.’
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,
18. any creature that crawls on the ground, or any fish in the waters under the earth.
19. When you look to the heavens and see the sun, moon, and stars — all the array of heaven — do not be led astray to bow down and worship them. The Lord your God has provided them for all people everywhere under heaven.
20. But the Lord selected you and brought you out of Egypt’s iron furnace to be a people for His inheritance, as you are today.
21. “The Lord was angry with me on your account. He swore that I would not cross the Jordan and enter the good land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
22. I won’t be crossing the Jordan because I am going to die in this land. But you are about to cross over and take possession of this good land.