³⁴ Or has God ever tried to go and take for himself a nation from the very bowels of another nation, by means of ordeals, signs, wonders, war, a mighty hand, an outstretched arm and great terrors — like all that Adonai your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

³⁷ Because he loved your ancestors, chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt with his presence and great power,

²⁸ There you will serve gods which are the product of human hands, made of wood and stone, which can’t see, hear, eat or smell.