Deuteronomy 4:9-14

New American Standard Bible

⁹ “Only ^(A)be careful for yourself and watch over your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart ^(B)all the days of your life; but ^(C)make them known to your sons and your grandsons. ¹⁰ Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me, that I may have them hear My words ^(D)so that they may learn to ^[a]fear Me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may ^(E)teach their children.’ ¹¹ You came forward and stood at the foot of the mountain, ^(F)and the mountain was burning with fire to the heart of the heavens: darkness, cloud, and thick gloom. ¹² Then the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form—there was only a voice. ¹³ So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, ^(G)the Ten ^[b]Commandments; and ^(H)He wrote them on two tablets of stone. ¹⁴ The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, so that you would perform them in the land where you are going over to take possession of it.