The Ten Commandments

20 Then God spoke all these words,^(A)

Moses the Mediator of God’s Will

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

³⁶ From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, while you heard his words coming out of the fire.^(A)

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

³⁸ He is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to us.^(A)

³³ Has any people ever heard the voice of a god speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and lived?^(A)

⁵³ You are the ones who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet you have not kept it.”^(A)