Ten Commandments for the Covenant Community

20 Then God gave the people all these instructions^[a]:

²² “The Lord spoke these words to all of you assembled there at the foot of the mountain. He spoke with a loud voice from the heart of the fire, surrounded by clouds and deep darkness. This was all he said at that time, and he wrote his words on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

³⁶ He let you hear his voice from heaven so he could instruct you. He let you see his great fire here on earth so he could speak to you from it.

⁴ At the mountain the Lord spoke to you face to face from the heart of the fire.

³⁸ Moses was with our ancestors, the assembly of God’s people in the wilderness, when the angel spoke to him at Mount Sinai. And there Moses received life-giving words to pass on to us.^[a]

³³ Has any nation ever heard the voice of God^[a] speaking from fire—as you did—and survived?

⁵³ You deliberately disobeyed God’s law, even though you received it from the hands of angels.”