Deuteronomy 4:3-21

31Your eyes have seen what the Lord has done in the case of Baal-peor, for all the men who followed Baal-peor, the Lord your God has destroyed 2them from among you. 4But you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you.

5“See, I have taught you statutes and judgments 3just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do thus in the land where you are entering to possess it. 6So keep and do them, 4for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ 7For 5what great nation is there that has a god 6so near to it as is the Lord our God 7whenever we call on Him? 8Or what great nation is there that has 8statutes and judgments as righteous as this whole law which I am setting before you today?

9“Only 9give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart 10all the days of your life; but 11make them known to your sons and your grandsons. 10Remember 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 let them hear My words 12so they may learn to 13fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may 14teach their children.’ 11You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, 15and the mountain burned with fire to the very heart of the heavens: darkness, cloud and thick gloom. 12Then the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form--only a voice. 13So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, 16the Ten 17Commandments; and 18He wrote them on two tablets of stone. 14The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might perform them in the land where you are going over to possess it.

15“So 19watch yourselves carefully, since you did not see any 20form on the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, 16so that you do not 21act corruptly and 22make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of 23any winged bird that flies in the sky, 18the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth. 19And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, 24all the host of heaven, 25and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. 20But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of 26the iron furnace, from Egypt, to 27be a people for His own possession, as today.

21“28Now the Lord was angry with me on your account, and swore that I would not cross the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.