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
16. not to act corruptly by fashioning an idol for yourselves to represent any figure, whether it be the form of a man or of a woman,
17. the form of any animal on the earth, the form of any bird that flies in the sky,
18. the form of anything that crawls on the ground, or the form of any fish in the waters under the earth.