¹⁰ how on ^(A)the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ^(B)‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, ^(C)so that they may learn to fear ^(D)me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’

⁹ And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am coming to you ^(A)in a thick cloud, that ^(B)the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also ^(C)believe you forever.”

When Moses told the words of the people to the Lord,

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¹⁸ For you have not come to ^(A)what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest ¹⁹ and ^(B)the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words ^(C)made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them.

¹⁹ And ^(A)it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, ^(B)that he may learn to fear the Lord his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them,

^2 (A)The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

^20 (A)Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to ^(B)test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.”

¹⁸ Now when all the people saw ^(A)the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid^[a] and trembled, and they stood far off

¹⁶ On the morning of the ^(A)third day there were ^(B)thunders and lightnings and ^(C)a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud ^(D)trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp ^(E)trembled.

¹³ The end of the matter; all has been heard. ^(A)Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.^[a]