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,
18. the form of anything that creeps on the ground, the form of any fish that is in the water under the earth—
19. and so that you do not lift up your eyes toward the heavens and see the sun and the moon and the stars—all the heavenly host—and are drawn away and bow down and worship them. Adonai your God has allotted them to all the peoples under all the heavens.
20. But you, Adonai has taken, and He brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt to be a people for His own inheritance, as you are this day.
21. “Furthermore Adonai was angry with me because of your words, and He swore that I would not cross over the Jordan or enter the good land that Adonai your God is giving you for an inheritance.