Exodus 20:18-19

The Ten Commandments

18 Now when all the people saw w the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid 1 and trembled, and they stood far off 19 and said to Moses, x "You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die."

  1. Cross References
    Hebrews 12:18
    For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest
  2. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 5:25
    Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die.
    Deuteronomy 5:27
    Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say and speak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.
    Deuteronomy 18:16
    Just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.
    Galatians 3:19 - 20
    Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
    Hebrews 12:19
    And the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them.
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