6. So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, “Indeed, this great nation is a very wise people.”
7. In fact, what other great nation has a god so near to them like the Lord our God whenever we call on him?
8. And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today?
9. Again, however, pay very careful attention, lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.
10. You stood before the Lord your God at Horeb and he said to me, “Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children.”
11. You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.