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OET-RV by cross-referenced section EXO 20:18

EXO 20:18–20:21 ©

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The people are afraid of God

Exo 20:18–21

Deu 5:22–33

18All of the people could hear and see the thunder and the lightning, the sound of the horn, and the mountain smoking. They trembled when they saw it, and they remained standing at a distance.[ref] 19They begged Mosheh, “You be the one to speak to us, and we’ll listen, but don’t let God speak directly to us, in case we die.”

20Don’t be afraid,” Mosheh responded, “because God has come to test you so that the fear of him will remain with you so that you all won’t disobey him.” 21So the people stood at a good distance while Mosheh approached toward the thick darkness where God was.


22Yahweh spoke those words in a booming voice from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the gloom, to all your assembly on the mountain. That was all he said, and he wrote those instructions on two stone tablets and gave them to me.[ref]

23Then when you heard the voice coming out from the darkness and the mountain was blazing with fire, then all the heads of your tribes and the elders approached me 24and said, “Listen, our god Yahweh demonstrated his greatness and power when we heard him speak from the fire. Today, we’ve realised that God talks to people, and that they can stay alive. 25However, we’re still afraid that we’ll die—getting burnt up in that intense fire if we continue hearing our god Yahweh’s voice, 26because when has anybody else ever heard the voice of the living god speak to them from the middle of a blazing fire and they still lived? 27You Mosheh (Moses), go and listen to everything that our god Yahweh says, and tell us everything that he tells you, and we’ll listen to that and obey it.”

28Yahweh heard you all say that to me, and told me, ‘I’ve heard what they said to you and it’s a good idea. 29If only they were sincere in saying that they’d honour me and always follow all my instructions so that everything would go well for them and their descendants forever. 30Go and tell them to return to their tents, 31but then come back up here and I’ll give you all the instructions and rules and regulations for you to teach them, so they can follow them in the land that I’m giving them to take possession of.’

32Make sure that you do everything that your god Yahweh has commandeddon’t deviate from any of them. 33Follow all the instructions from your god Yahweh, and then you’ll all live and things will go well and you’ll all be able to occupy that land for a long time.


Collected OET-RV cross-references

Heb 12:18-19:

18You all haven’t come to what can be touched and to a blazing fire and to darkness and to gloom and to a storm (like Israelis encountered at Mt. Sinai)[ref] 19and to a trumpet blast and then God speaking a message. But when they heard him speaking, they pleaded for him not to say anything else to them,


12:18-19: Exo 19:16-22; 20:18-21; Deu 4:11-12; 5:22-27.