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22 Moses at Sinai. These are the things that the Lord proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly on the mountain from the midst of the flame, out of the cloud and the deep darkness, this and nothing more. He then wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me. 23 When you heard the voice coming out of the darkness, while the mountain was blazing with fire,[a] all of the leaders of your tribes and your elders drew near to me.

24 You said, “The Lord, our God, has shown us his glory and his majesty. We have heard his voice coming forth from out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God were to speak to him.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 5:23 The mountain was blazing with fire: whether the fire was symbolic or real, the association of fire with God’s presence confirms for the Israelites the Lord’s power to destroy.