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34 Or has a god ever attempted to go to take for himself[a] a nation from the midst of a nation, using trials and signs and wonders and war, with an outstretched arm and with great and awesome deeds, like all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 You yourselves[b] were shown this wonder in order for you to acknowledge that Yahweh is the God;[c] there is no other God besides him.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 4:34 Hebrew “for him”
  2. Deuteronomy 4:35 Emphatic use of pronoun; plural meaning implied
  3. Deuteronomy 4:35 The definite article indicates that Israel’s God is alone the true God and the one who revealed himself to them
  4. Deuteronomy 4:35 Literally “except him” or “to him alone”

34 Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation,(A) by testings,(B) by signs(C) and wonders,(D) by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm,(E) or by great and awesome deeds,(F) like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

35 You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides him there is no other.(G)

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