Deuteronomy 5:23

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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.

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Deuteronomy 5:23 in all English translations

Exodus 20:18-19

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The People Afraid of God’s Presence

¹⁸Now ^(A)all the people ^(B)witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain ^(C)smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off. ¹⁹Then they said to Moses, ^(D)“You speak with us, and we will hear; but ^(E)let not God speak with us, lest we die.”

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Hebrews 12:18-21

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The Glorious Company

¹⁸For you have not come ^[a]to ^(A)the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and ^[b]darkness and tempest, ¹⁹and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it ^(B)begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. ²⁰(For they could not endure what was commanded: ^(C)“And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned ^[c]or shot with an arrow.” ²¹And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, ^(D)“I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.”)