Deuteronomy 5:22-33

Expanded Bible

²² The Lord spoke these ·commands [^Lwords] to ·all of you [your whole community/congregation/assembly] on the mountain in a loud voice out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness; he did not say anything else. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets, and he gave them to me.

²³ When you heard the voice from the darkness, as the mountain was blazing with fire, all the leaders of your tribes and your elders ·came to [approached] me. ²⁴ And you said, “The Lord our God has shown us his glory [^Chis manifest presence] and ·majesty [greatness], and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks to him. ²⁵ But now, ·we will [^Lwhy should we … ?] die! This great fire will burn us up, and we will die if we hear the Lord our God speak anymore. ²⁶ ·No human being [^LFor who of all flesh…?] has ever heard the living God speaking from a fire and still lived, but we have. ²⁷ Moses, you go near and listen to everything the Lord our God says. Then you tell us what the Lord our God tells you, and we will listen and obey.”

²⁸ The Lord heard what you said to me, and he said to me, “I have heard what the people said to you. Everything they said was good. ²⁹ ·I wish [^LIf only] their ·hearts [minds] would always ·respect [fear] me and that they would always obey my commands so that things would go well for them and their children forever!

³⁰ “Go and tell the people to return to their tents, ³¹ but you stay here with me so that I may give you all the commands, ·rules [statutes; ordinances; requirements], and laws that you must teach the people to obey in the land I am giving them as their ·own [possession].”

³² So be careful to do what the Lord your God has commanded you, and ·follow the commands exactly [^Ldo not turn aside to the right or to the left]. ³³ ·Live the way [^LWalk on the way/path that] the Lord your God has commanded you so that you may live and have what is good and have a long life in the land you will ·take [possess].