Deuteronomy 4:32-40

“For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God

created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a

great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of. 33Did any people ever hear

the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?

34 Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of

another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an

outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for

you in Egypt before your eyes? 35To you it was shown, that you might know that the

Lord is God; there is no other besides him. 36 Out of heaven he let you hear his voice,

that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard

his words out of the midst of the fire. 37And because he loved your fathers and chose

their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his

great power, 38 driving out before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring

you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day, 39 know therefore to-

day, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth be-

neath; there is no other. 40Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his command-

ments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your chil-

dren after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God

is giving you for all time.”