Exodus 20:19 Cross References - LEB

¹⁹ And they said to Moses, "You speak with us, and we will listen, but let not God speak with us, lest we die."

³⁰ Then Jacob called the name of the place Peniel which means "I have seen God face to face and my life was spared."

²⁰ But he said, "You are not able to see my face, because a human will not see me and live."

⁵ I was standing _⌊between Yahweh and you_⌋* at that time to report* to you the word of Yahweh, for you were afraid because of _⌊the presence of_⌋* the fire, and so you did not go up the mountain. _⌊He said_⌋,*

²³ _⌊And then_⌋* _⌊when you heard_⌋* the voice from the midst of the darkness, and as the mountain was burning with fire, and and all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me, ²⁴ you 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* that God can speak with a human being, _⌊yet he remains alive_⌋.* ²⁵ And so then why shall we die, for this great fire will consume us if _⌊we continue_⌋* to hear the voice of Yahweh our God any longer, and so we shall die? ²⁶ For 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_⌋?* ²⁷ You go near and hear _⌊everything_⌋* 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.'

¹⁶ This is _⌊according to all that you asked_⌋* from Yahweh your God at Horeb, on the day of the assembly, _⌊saying_⌋,* '_⌊I do not want again to hear_⌋* the voice of Yahweh my God, and I do not want to see again this great fire, so that I may not die!'

³⁸ This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and who with our fathers received living oracles to give to us,

¹⁹ Why then the law? It was added on account of transgressions, until the descendant should come to whom it had been promised, having been ordered through angels by the hand of a mediator.

¹⁹ and to the noise of a trumpet, and to the sound of words which those who heard begged that not another word be spoken to them.