They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship.

You must not have any other gods besides me.

Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?

You must not go after other gods, those of the surrounding peoples,

Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods!

In fact, what other great nation has a god so near to them like the Lord our God whenever we call on him?

There you will worship gods made by human hands – wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?

for they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the Lord will erupt against you and he will quickly destroy you.

and the sign or wonder should come to pass concerning what he said to you, namely, “Let us follow other gods” – gods whom you have not previously known – “and let us serve them.”

some evil people have departed from among you to entice the inhabitants of their cities, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods” (whom you have not known before).

by serving other gods and worshiping them – the sun, moon, or any other heavenly bodies which I have not permitted you to worship.

how they met you along the way and cut off all your stragglers in the rear of the march when you were exhausted and tired; they were unafraid of God.

But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship them.

But I will certainly hide myself at that time because of all the wickedness they will have done by turning to other gods.

They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known; to new gods who had recently come along, gods your ancestors had not known about.

“See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the Lord, “and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.

Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.

Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

You said, “The Lord our God has shown us his great glory and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.