²²“These words Yahweh spoke to your whole assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire and the very thick cloud with a loud voice, and he did not add anything,^q and then he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. ²³And then^r when you heard^s the voice from the midst of the darkness, and as the mountain was burning with fire, and all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me, ²⁴you said, ‘Look, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire; this day we have seen^t that God can speak with a human being, yet he remains alive.^u ²⁵And so then why shall we die, for this great fire will consume us if we continue^v to hear the voice of Yahweh our God any longer, and so we shall die? ²⁶For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire as we have heard it and remained alive?^w ²⁷You go near and hear everything^x that Yahweh our God will say; and then you tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you, and we will listen, and we will do it.’

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Footnotes

qLiterally “and not he added”
rLiterally “And it happened”
sLiterally “and as/when you heard” or “at the moment of your hearing”
tOr “saw”
uLiterally “and he lives”
vLiterally “we do again to hear”; or “we are doing again to hear”
wLiterally “and lives”
xLiterally “all of that which”