But take heed to thyself, and [a]keep thy soul diligently, that thou forget not the things which thine eyes have seen, and that they depart not out of thine heart, all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons:

10 Forget not the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will cause them to 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:

11 Then came you near and (A)stood under the mountain, and the mountain [b]burnt with fire unto the midst of heaven, and there was darkness, clouds and mist.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 4:9 He addeth all these words, to show that we can never be careful enough to keep the law of God and to teach it to our posterity.
  2. Deuteronomy 4:11 The Law was given with fearful miracles, to declare both that God was the author thereof, and also that no flesh was able to abide the rigor of the same.

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