32For ask, please, about the first days that were before you, from the day when God created man upon the land, and from the end of the heaven to the end of the heaven: has anything like this great word happened, or has anything like it been heard?33Has a people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, just as you heard and lived?34Or has God tested by coming to take for himself a nation from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by battle, by a strong hand, by a stretched arm, and by great fears, like everything that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?35You were shown these things so that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him.36From heaven he caused his voice to be heard by you in order to discipline you, and upon the land he caused his great fire to be seen by you, and you heard his words from the midst of the fire.37And because he loved your fathers, he chose his seed after him and brought you out before him with his great strength from Egypt.38He did this in order to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you from before you, to bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day.39Know therefore today and take it to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the land beneath; there is no other.40Therefore keep his statutes and his commandments that I am commanding you today, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and so that you may prolong your days in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.