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For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
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And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I setbefore you this day?
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Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy souldiligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons'sons;
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Specially the day that thou stoodestbefore the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORDsaid unto me, Gather me the peopletogether, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
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And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountainburned with fire unto the midst[a] of heaven, with darkness,clouds, and thick darkness.
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And the LORDspake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude;only[b] ye heard a voice.
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And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even tencommandments; and he wrote them upon twotables of stone.
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And the LORDcommanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
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Take ye therefore goodheed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORDspake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
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Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
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The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any wingedfowl that flieth in the air,