The Lord Is God

³² Ask^(A) now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth;^(B) ask from one end of the heavens to the other.^(C) Has anything so great^(D) as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of? ³³ Has any other people heard the voice of God^[a] speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?^{(E) 34} Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation,^(F) by testings,^(G) by signs^(H) and wonders,^(I) by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm,^(J) or by great and awesome deeds,^(K) like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

³⁵ You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides him there is no other.^{(L) 36} From heaven he made you hear his voice^(M) to discipline^(N) you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire. ³⁷ Because he loved^(O) your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength,^{(P) 38} to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance,^(Q) as it is today.

³⁹ Acknowledge^(R) and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.^{(S) 40} Keep^(T) his decrees and commands,^(U) which I am giving you today, so that it may go well^(V) with you and your children after you and that you may live long^(W) in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.

Follow the Lord’s Commands

¹⁶ The Lord your God commands you this day to follow these decrees and laws; carefully observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.^(A)