6. You must keep and do them, for it is your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the peoples, who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’
7. For what great nation is there that has gods so near to them, as Adonai our God is whenever we call on Him?
8. What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances that are righteous—like all of this Torah that I am setting before you today?
9. “Only be watchful and watch over your soul closely, so you do not forget the things your eyes have seen and they slip from your heart all the days of your life. You are to make them known to your children and your children’s children.
10. The day that you stood before Adonai your God in Horeb, Adonai said to me, ‘Gather the people to Me and I will make them hear My words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days that they live on the earth, and so that they teach their children.’
11. “You came near and stood at the bottom of the mountain while the mountain was blazing with fire up to the heart of the heavens—darkness, cloud, and fog.
12. Adonai spoke to you from the midst of the fire. The sound of words you heard, but a form you did not see—only a voice.
13. He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to do—the Ten Words—and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
14. Adonai commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, so that you might do them in the land you are crossing over to possess.
15. “So be very watchful over your souls since you saw no form on the day that Adonai spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,
16. so that you do not act corruptly and make for yourselves a graven image in the likeness of any figure—the form of a male or female,
17. the form of any animal that is on the earth, the form of any winged bird that flies in the sky,