Deuteronomy 5:22-25 »Jehovah spoke to us when we gathered on the mountain. He spoke with a loud voice from the dark fiery cloud. Jehovah gave us these words, and only these. Then he wrote them on two flat tablets of stone and gave them to me.

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ²² »Jehovah spoke to us when we gathered on the mountain. He spoke with a loud voice from the dark fiery cloud. Jehovah gave us these words, and only these. Then he wrote them on two flat tablets of stone and gave them to me. ²³ »Fire blazed from the mountain, and you heard the voice coming from the darkness. Then your elders came to me. ²⁴ »They said: ‘Today Jehovah our God has shown us how powerful and glorious he is. He spoke to us from the fire. We learned that people could live, even though God speaks to them. ²⁵ »‘We do not want to take a chance on being killed by that terrible fire. If we hear Jehovah’s voice again we will die.