Deuteronomy 4:9-14

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁹ “Only ^(A)give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart ^(B)all the days of your life; but ^(C)make them known to your sons and your grandsons. ¹⁰ Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me, that I may let them hear My words ^(D)so they may learn to ^[a]fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may ^(E)teach their children.’ ¹¹ You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, ^(F)and the mountain burned with fire to the very heart of the heavens: darkness, cloud and thick gloom. ¹² Then the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form—only a voice. ¹³ So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, ^(G)the Ten ^[b]Commandments; and ^(H)He wrote them on two tablets of stone. ¹⁴ The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might perform them in the land where you are going over to possess it.