9. Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things that thine eyes have seen (and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but thou shalt make them known to thy sons and to thy sons' sons),
10. the day that thou stoodest before Jehovah thy God in Horeb, when Jehovah said to me, Gather me the people together, that I may cause them to hear my words, that they may learn them, and fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and teach them to their children.
11. And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and obscurity.
12. And Jehovah spoke to you from the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but ye saw no form; only ye heard a voice.
13. And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, the ten words; and he wrote them on 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 are passing over to possess it.
15. And take great heed to your souls (for ye saw no form on the day that Jehovah spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire),
16. lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the form of any figure, the pattern of male or female,
17. the pattern of any beast that is on the earth, the pattern of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,
18. the pattern of anything that creepeth on the ground, the pattern of any fish that is in the waters under the earth;
19. and lest thou lift up thine eyes to the heavens, and see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, the whole host of heaven, and be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath assigned unto all peoples under the whole heaven.
20. But you hath Jehovah taken, and hath brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, that ye might be to him a people of inheritance, as it is this day.
21. And Jehovah was angry with me on your account, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not enter in to that good land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance;
22. for I shall die in this land, I shall not go over the Jordan; but ye shall go over, and possess this good land.
23. Take heed to yourselves lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God which he made with you, and make yourselves a graven image, the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee.
24. For Jehovah thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous ·God