A reading from the book of Deuteronomy. Moses said to the people, ask now the days of old, before your time,

ever since God created man upon the earth. Ask from one end of the sky to the other. Did anything so great ever happened before? Was it ever

even heard of? Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of fire as you did

and live? Or did any God venture to go and take a nation for himself

from the midst of other nations,

by testings, by signs and wonders, by war,

with strong hand and outstretched arm,

and by great terrors, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes.

All this you were allowed to see, that you might know the Lord is God and that there is no other.

Out of the heavens, he let you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth,

he let you see his great fire, and you heard him speaking out of the fire. For love of your

fathers, he chose their descendants, and personally led you out of Egypt by his great power, driving out

of your way nations greater and mightier than you, so as to bring you in and to make their

land your heritage as it is today. This is why you must know and fix in your heart that the Lord is God in the heavens above and on earth below,

and that there is no other.

You must keep his statutes and commandments which I enjoin on you today,

that you and your children after you may prosper,

and that you may have long life on the land,

which the Lord your God is giving you forever.

The Word of the Lord.

I remember the deeds of the Lord. I remember the deeds of the Lord.

I remember the deeds of the Lord.

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