³² “For ask now about former ages, long before your own, ever since the day that God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of heaven to the other: Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has its like ever been heard of?^{(A) 33} Has any people ever heard the voice of a god speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and lived?^{(B) 34} Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by terrifying displays of power, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?^{(C) 35} To you it was shown so that you would acknowledge that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.^{(D) 36} From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, while you heard his words coming out of the fire.^{(E) 37} And because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants after them. He brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,^{(F) 38} driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, giving you their land for a possession, as it is still today.^{(G) 39} So acknowledge today and take to heart that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.^{(H) 40} Keep his statutes and his commandments, which I am commanding you today for your own well-being and that of your descendants after you, so that you may long remain in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”^(I)