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And, all the people, were witnessing the voices and the torches, and the sound of the horn, and the mountain smoking, - so then the people were struck with awe and shrank back, and stood afar off.

And they said unto Moses, Speak, thou, with us, and we will hear, - but let not God speak with us lest we die.

And Moses said unto the people - Do not fear, for to the end he may prove you, hath God come, - and to the end the reverence of him may be upon your faces that ye sin not.

So then the people stood afar off, and, Moses, approached unto the thick gloom, where God was.