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 clung 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 are to do these things in the land where you are entering to take possession of 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 9be 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 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 have them hear My words 12so that they may learn to 13fear Me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may 14teach their children.’ 11You came forward and stood at the foot of the mountain, 15and the mountain was burning with fire to the 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--there was 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, so that you would perform them in the land where you are going over to take possession of it.

15“So 19be very careful 20yourselves, since you did not see any 21form on the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, 16so that you do not 22act corruptly and 23make a carved image for yourselves in the form of any figure, a representation of male or female, 17a representation of any animal that is on the earth, a representation of 24any winged bird that flies in the sky, 18a representation of anything that crawls on the ground, or a representation of any fish that is in the water below the earth. 19And be careful not to raise your eyes to heaven and look at the sun, the moon, and the stars, 25all the heavenly 26lights, 27and allow yourself to be drawn away and worship them and serve them, things 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 28the iron furnace, from Egypt, to 29be a people of His own possession, as today.

21“30Now the Lord was angry with me on your account, and He 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.