Deuteronomy 5:22–27

²²“These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the dense gloom, with a great voice, and He added no more. ^aHe wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

²³“Now it happened that when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.

²⁴“And you said, ‘Behold, Yahweh 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 man, yet he lives.

²⁵‘^aSo now then why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any longer, then we will die.

²⁶‘For ^awho is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

²⁷‘As for you, go near and hear all that Yahweh our God says; then speak to us all that Yahweh our God speaks to you, and we will hear and do it.’