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Only guard yourselves carefully so you won’t forget the things that you saw and let them slip from your mind for the rest of your life. Tell them to your children and to your grandchildren. 10 The day you stood in the presence of the Lord your God in Horeb, the Lord told me, ‘Gather the people before me so they may hear my words, learn to revere me the whole time that they live in the land, and teach them[a] to their children.’”

Moses Warns against Idolatry

11 “When you approached and stood at the foot of the mountain—a mountain that was blazing with fire at its core[b] while the sky was covered with thick, dark clouds— 12 the Lord your God spoke from the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but you saw no form; there was only a voice. 13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to observe—the Ten Commandments that he wrote on two stone tablets. 14 The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you to observe the statutes and ordinances in the land after you cross over to take possession of it.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 4:10 The Heb. lacks them
  2. Deuteronomy 4:11 Lit. heart

“However, take care[a] for yourself and watch your inner self[b] closely, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen, so that they do not slip from your mind all the days of your life; and you shall make them known to your children and to your grandchildren.[c] 10 Remember the day that you stood before[d] Yahweh your God at Horeb when Yahweh said to me,[e] ‘Summon for me the people so that I can tell them my words, that they may learn to fear me all of the days they are alive on the earth and so that they may teach their children.’ 11 And so you came near, and you stood under the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire up to the heart of the heaven, dark with a very thick cloud.[f] 12 And Yahweh spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard[g] a sound of words, but you did not see[h] a form—only a voice. 13 And he declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments,[i] which he charged you to observe,[j] and he wrote them on the two tablets of stone. 14 And Yahweh charged me at that time to teach you rules and regulations for your observation of them[k] in the land that you are about to cross into[l] to take possession of it.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 4:9 Literally “watch”
  2. Deuteronomy 4:9 Or “soul”
  3. Deuteronomy 4:9 Literally “the children of your children”
  4. Deuteronomy 4:10 Literally “to the face of”
  5. Deuteronomy 4:10 Literally “when to say Yahweh”
  6. Deuteronomy 4:11 Literally “darkness, cloud, and very thick darkness”
  7. Deuteronomy 4:12 Literally “you were hearing”
  8. Deuteronomy 4:12 Literally “you were not seeing”
  9. Deuteronomy 4:13 Literally “the ten words”
  10. Deuteronomy 4:13 Literally “to do”
  11. Deuteronomy 4:14 Literally “for your doing them”
  12. Deuteronomy 4:14 Literally “about to cross into there”