¹⁶ according to all you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb ^(A)in the day of the assembly, saying, ^(B)‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.’

¹⁹ Then they said to Moses, ^(A)“You speak with us, and we will hear; but ^(B)let not God speak with us, lest we die.”

^10 (A)Then the Lord delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire ^(B)in^[a] the day of the assembly.

The People Afraid of God’s Presence^(A)

^23 (B)“So it was, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders. ²⁴ And you said: ‘Surely the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and ^(C)we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man; yet he ^(D)still lives. ²⁵ Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; ^(E)if we hear the voice of the Lord our God anymore, then we shall die. ^26 (F)For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? ²⁷ You go near and hear all that the Lord our God may say, and ^(G)tell us all that the Lord our God says to you, and we will hear and do it.’

²⁸ “Then the Lord heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and the Lord said to me: ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. ^(H)They are right in all that they have spoken.

¹⁹ and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it ^(A)begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore.