²² “These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly ^(A)at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And ^(B)he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

¹⁸ And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the ^(A)two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with ^(B)the finger of God.

¹² The Lord said to Moses, ^(A)“Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the ^(B)tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.”

⁴ The Lord spoke with you ^(A)face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire,

^36 (A)Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and ^(B)you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.

¹² Then ^(A)the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, ^(B)but saw no form; ^(C)there was only a voice. ^13 (D)And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, ^(E)the Ten Commandments,^{[a] (F)}and he wrote them on two tablets of stone. ¹⁴ And ^(G)the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.

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^15 (H)“Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since ^(I)you saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

¹⁸ Now ^(A)Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and ^(B)the whole mountain trembled greatly. ¹⁹ And as the ^(C)sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and ^(D)God answered him in thunder.