Study Desk

"These words the LORD spoke to your whole assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, from the cloud, and from the thick darkness, with a great voice, and He added nothing more. ^(C1)He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

"And when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you approached me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.

"You said, 'Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with mankind, yet he lives.

'^(C1)Now then, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer, then we will die!

'For ^(C1)who is there of ^(F1)humanity who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

'^(F1)Go near and listen to everything that the LORD our God says; then speak to us everything that the LORD our God speaks to you, and we will listen and do it.'

"Now the LORD heard the sound of your words when you spoke to me, ^(C1)and the LORD said to me, 'I have heard the sound of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.

'^(C1)If only they had such a heart in them, to fear Me and ^(C2)keep all My commandments always, so that ^(C3)it would go well with them and with their sons forever!

'Go, say to them, "Return to your tents."

'^(C1)But as for you, stand here by Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, so that they may ^(F1)follow them in the land which I am giving them to possess.'

"So you shall be careful to do just as the LORD your God has commanded you; ^(C1)you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.

"^(C1)You shall walk ^(F1)entirely in the way which the LORD your God has commanded you, ^(C2)so that you may live and that it may be well for you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you will possess.