35. All this you were allowed to see that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other.
36. Out of the heavens he let you hear his voice to discipline you; on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard him speaking out of the fire.
37. For love of your ancestors he chose their descendants after them and by his presence and great power led you out of Egypt,
38. dispossessing before you nations greater and mightier than you, so as to bring you in and to give their land to you as a heritage, as it is today.
39. This is why you must now acknowledge, and fix in your heart, that the Lord is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other.
40. And you must keep his statutes and commandments which I command you today, that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may have long life on the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you forever.
41. Then Moses set apart three cities in the region east of the Jordan,