32 Nothing like this has ever happened before! Look at the past, long before you were even born. Go all the way back to when God made man on the earth. Look from one end of heaven to the other. Nothing like this has ever been heard of!
33 No other people have ever heard God speak from a fire and still lived. But you have.
34 No other god has ever taken for himself one nation out of another. But the Lord your God did this for you in Egypt. He did it right before your own eyes. He did it with tests, signs, miracles, war and great sights. He did it by his great power and strength.
35 He showed you things so you would know that the Lord is God. There is no other God besides him.
36 He spoke to you from heaven to teach you. He showed you his great fire on earth. And you heard him speak from the fire.
37 The Lord loved your ancestors. That is why he chose you, their descendants. He brought you out of Egypt himself by his great strength.
38 He forced nations out of their land ahead of you. And these nations were bigger and stronger than you were. But the Lord brought you into their land and gave it to you to own. And this land is yours today.