9Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life: but teach them to your sons, and your sons' sons; 10Specially the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, “Gather Me the people together, and I will make them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.” 11And you came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. 12And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only you heard a voice. 13And He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and He wrote them upon two tables of stone. 14And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.

15Take, therefore, good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: 16Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make you a carved (graven) image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flies in the air, 18The likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: 19And lest you lift up your eyes unto heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, should be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has divided to all nations under the whole heaven. 20But the LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto Him a people of inheritance, as you are this day. 21Furthermore, the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance: 22But I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan: but you shall go over, and possess that good land. 23Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which He made with you, and make you a carved image, or the likeness of anything, which the LORD your God has forbidden you. 24For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

25When you shall beget children, and children's children, and you shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image, or the likeness of anything, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke Him to anger: 26I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land to which you go over the Jordan to possess; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. 27And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where the LORD shall lead you. 28And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, of wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 29But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30When you are in tribulation, and all these things have come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and shall be obedient to His voice; 31(For the LORD your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.

32For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven to the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it? 33Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? 34Or has God ventured to go and take Him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35Unto you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD, He is God; there is none else beside Him. 36Out of heaven He made you to hear His voice, that He might instruct you: and upon earth He showed you His great fire; and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire. 37And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them, and brought you out in His sight with His mighty power out of Egypt; 38To drive out nations greater and mightier than you are from before you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. 39Know therefore this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD, He is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. 40You shall keep therefore His statutes, and His commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days upon the earth, which the LORD your God gives you, forever.”

41Then Moses set apart three cities on this side of the Jordan toward the east; 42That the slayer might flee there, who should kill his neighbor unintentionally, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing to one of these cities, he might live: 43Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.

44And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: 45These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt, 46On this side of the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they had come forth out of Egypt: 47And they possessed his land, and the land of Og, king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on this side of the Jordan toward the east; 48From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even to mount Sion, which is Hermon, 49And all the Arabah (plain) on this side of the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the springs of Pisgah.