Study Desk

"Indeed, ^(C1)ask now about the earlier days that were ^(F1)before your time, since the ^(C2)day that God created ^(F2)mankind on the earth, and inquire ^(C3)from one end of the heavens to the other. ^(C4)Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?

"^(C1)Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived?

"^(C1)Or has a god ventured to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation ^(C2)by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, ^(C3)by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, ^(F1)just as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

"You were shown these things so that you might know that the LORD, He is God; ^(C1)there is no other besides Him.

"^(C1)Out of the heavens He let you hear His voice ^(C2)to discipline you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire.

"^(C1)Because He loved your fathers, He chose ^(F1)their descendants after them. And He ^(F2)(C2)personally brought you from Egypt by His great power,

driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and ^(C1)to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is today.

"Therefore know today, and take it to your heart, that ^(C1)the LORD, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

"^(C1)So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am ^(F1)giving you today, so that ^(C2)it may go well for you and for your children after you, and ^(C3)that you may ^(F2)live long on the land which the LORD your God is giving you for all time."