28. There you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
29. But if from there you will seek the Lord your God, you will find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30. When you are in distress and all these things 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 abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
32. Indeed, ask about the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heavens to the other, whether there has ever been any such thing as this great thing, or has anything like it ever been heard?
33. Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and lived?
34. Or has God ever tried to take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35. To you it was shown so that you might know that the Lord, He is God. There is no one else besides Him.
36. Out of heaven He let you hear His voice so that He might instruct you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.
37. Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them and personally brought you out of Egypt with His mighty power
38. to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you are, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.
39. Know therefore today, and consider it in your heart, that the Lord, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.
40. Therefore, you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you this day, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and so that you may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord your God gives you, forever.
41. Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan, toward the east,
42. that the manslayer might flee there, that is, anyone who killed his neighbor unintentionally without hating him in time past could flee to one of these cities and live: