The Opening Exhortation

5:1 Then Moses called all the people of Israel together and said to them:1 “Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances that I am about to deliver to you today; learn them and be careful to keep them! 5:2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 5:3 He2 did not make this covenant with our ancestors3 but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now. 5:4 The Lord spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire. 5:5 (I was standing between the Lord and you at that time to reveal to you the message4 of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said: