6 Therefore keep and do them: for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, who, when they hear of all these statutes, will say, Only this great nation is a wise and prudent people.

7 For is there any great nation to whom their gods are so near, as the Lord our God is to us, when we call upon him?

8 And is there any great nation that has such just ordinances and laws as all this law which I set before you this day?

9 Only take heed and guard carefully your soul, lest you forget the works which your eyes have seen, and that they do not go out of your heart all the days of your life; And thou shalt tell them to thy sons, and to the sons of thy sons;

10 Concerning the day when thou stood before the LORD thy God at Horeb, and when the LORD said unto me, Gather the people unto me, and I will declare unto them my words, by which they shall learn to fear me all the days of their life on earth, and shall teach their sons.

11 And ye drew nigh, and stood under the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire unto the heavens, and there was darkness, and cloud, and gloom.

12 And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire; the voice of [His] words you have heard, but you have not seen the image, but only the voice;

13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to keep, the Decalogue, and wrote it on two tablets of stone.

14 And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and laws, that you might do them in the land into which you are entering, that you might possess it.

15 Hold fast in your souls, that ye saw no form in that day, when the LORD spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

16 lest ye be corrupted, and make for yourselves images of any idol, representing a man or a woman,

17 The images of any cattle that are on the earth, the images of any winged bird that flies under the heavens,

18 the image of any [reptile] crawling on the ground, the image of any fish that is in the waters below the earth;

19 And lest thou lookest unto heaven, and see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and all the host of heaven, and be deceived, and worship them, and serve them, for the LORD thy God hath given them unto all the nations under all heaven.