11. When you came and stood at the bottom of the mountain, it blazed with fire that reached to the sky, and black clouds made it very dark.
12. The Lord spoke to you from the fire. You heard the sound of words, but you did not see him; there was only a voice.
13. The Lord told you about his Agreement, the Ten Commandments. He told you to obey them, and he wrote them on two stone tablets.
14. Then the Lord commanded me to teach you the laws and rules that you must obey in the land you will take when you cross the Jordan River.
15. Since the Lord spoke to you from the fire at Mount Sinai, but you did not see him, watch yourselves carefully!
16. Don’t sin by making idols of any kind, and don’t make statues—of men or women,
17. of animals on earth or birds that fly in the air,