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“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”

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children’s children; 10 the day that thou stoodest before Jehovah thy God in Horeb, when Jehovah said unto me, Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children. 11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. 12 And Jehovah spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of words, but ye saw no form; only ye heard a voice. 13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten [a]commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. 14 And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 4:13 Hebrew words.