6. Observe them carefully, for this is your wisdom and discernment in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “This great nation is truly a wise and discerning people.”
7. For what great nation is there that has gods so close to it as the Lord, our God, is to us whenever we call upon him?
8. Or what great nation has statutes and ordinances that are as just as this whole law which I am setting before you today?
9. However, be on your guard and be very careful not to forget the things your own eyes have seen, nor let them slip from your heart as long as you live, but make them known to your children and to your children’s children,
10. that day you stood before the Lord, your God, at Horeb, when the Lord said to me: Assemble the people for me, that I may let them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me as long as they live in the land and may so teach their children.
11. You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain blazed to the heart of the heavens with fire and was enveloped in a dense black cloud.
12. Then the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.
13. He proclaimed to you his covenant, which he commanded you to keep: the ten words, which he wrote on two stone tablets.
14. At that time the Lord charged me to teach you the statutes and ordinances for you to observe in the land you are about to cross into and possess.
15. Because you saw no form at all on the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, be strictly on your guard