Revelation at Horeb. ⁹ However, be on your guard and be very careful not to forget the things your own eyes have seen, nor let them slip from your heart as long as you live, but make them known to your children^(A) and to your children’s children, ¹⁰ that day you stood before the Lord, your God, at Horeb, when the Lord said to me: Assemble the people for me, that I may let them hear my words, that they may learn to fear^[a] me as long as they live in the land and may so teach their children.

Instruction to Children. ^20 (A)Later on, when your son asks you, “What do these decrees and statutes and ordinances mean?”^(B) which the Lord, our God, has enjoined on you, ^21 (C)you shall say to your son, “We were once slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand^{(D) 22} and wrought before our eyes signs and wonders, great and dire, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and his whole house. ²³ He brought us from there to bring us in and give us the land he had promised on oath to our ancestors.^{(E) 24 (F)}The Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes in fear of the Lord, our God, that we may always have as good a life as we have today. ²⁵ This is our justice before the Lord, our God: to observe carefully this whole commandment he has enjoined on us.”

Chapter 11

Recalling the Wonders of the Lord. ¹ Love the Lord, your God, therefore, and keep his charge, statutes, ordinances, and commandments always.^{(A) 2} Recall today that it was not your children, who have neither known nor seen the discipline of the Lord, your God—his greatness, his strong hand and outstretched arm;^{(B) 3} the signs and deeds he wrought in the midst of Egypt, on Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and on all his land;^{(C) 4} what he did to the Egyptian army and to their horses and chariots, engulfing them in the waters of the Red Sea^[a] as they pursued you,^(D) so that the Lord destroyed them even to this day; ⁵ what he did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place; ⁶ and what he did to the Reubenites Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up out of the midst of Israel, with their families and tents and every living thing that belonged to them—^{(E) 7} but it was you who saw with your own eyes all these great deeds that the Lord has done.

¹⁹ Teach them to your children, speaking of them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up,

¹³ Their children also, who do not know it yet, shall hear and learn to fear the Lord, your God, as long as you live on the land which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.

⁴⁶ he said to them,^(A) Take to heart all the words that I am giving in witness against you today, words you should command your children, that they may observe carefully every word of this law.