Exodus 20:19

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They said to Moses,“You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”

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  • Deut 18:16 : 16 This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the LORD your God:“Please do not make us hear the voice of the LORD our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”
  • Exod 33:20 : 20 But he added,“You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.”
  • Gal 3:19 : 19 Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the descendant to whom the promise had been made. It was administered through angels by an intermediary.
  • Heb 12:19 : 19 and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.
  • Gen 32:30 : 30 So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining,“Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”
  • Deut 5:5 : 5 (I was standing between the LORD and you at that time to reveal the LORD’s message to you, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:
  • Deut 5:23-27 : 23 Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me. 24 You said,“The LORD our God has shown us his great glory and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living. 25 But now, why should we die, because this intense fire will consume us! If we keep hearing the voice of the LORD our God we will die! 26 Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived? 27 You go near so that you can hear everything the LORD our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.”
  • Acts 7:38 : 38 This is the man who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to you.

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    20Moses said to the people,“Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin.”

    21The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

    22The Altar The LORD said to Moses:“Thus you will tell the Israelites:‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven.

  • Deut 5:24-27
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    24You said,“The LORD our God has shown us his great glory and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.

    25But now, why should we die, because this intense fire will consume us! If we keep hearing the voice of the LORD our God we will die!

    26Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?

    27You go near so that you can hear everything the LORD our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.”

  • Exod 20:18
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    18All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking– and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.

  • Deut 18:16
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    16This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the LORD your God:“Please do not make us hear the voice of the LORD our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”

  • Num 17:12-13
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    12The Israelites said to Moses,“We are bound to die! We perish, we all perish!

    13(17:28) Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the LORD will die! Are we all to die?”

  • Num 20:3-4
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    3The people contended with Moses, saying,“If only we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

    4Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

  • Heb 12:19-21
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    19and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.

    20For they could not bear what was commanded:“If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”

    21In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said,“I shudder with fear.”

  • Exod 19:21
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    21The LORD said to Moses,“Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the LORD to look, and many of them perish.

  • Exod 19:23-25
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    23Moses said to the LORD,“The people are not able to come up to Mount Sinai, because you solemnly warned us,‘Set boundaries for the mountain and set it apart.’”

    24The LORD said to him,“Go, get down, and come up, and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the LORD, lest he break through against them.”

    25So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.

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    1Religious and Social Regulations The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 19:8-9
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    8and all the people answered together,“All that the LORD has commanded we will do!” So Moses brought the words of the people back to the LORD.

    9The LORD said to Moses,“I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.” And Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.

  • Exod 24:2-3
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    2Moses alone may come near the LORD, but the others must not come near, nor may the people go up with him.”

    3Moses came and told the people all the LORD’s words and all the decisions. All the people answered together,“We are willing to do all the words that the LORD has said,”

  • Num 16:23
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    23So the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 19:17
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    17Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.

  • Exod 14:11-12
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    11and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

    12Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt,‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”

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    10Then the LORD said to Moses,

  • Lev 18:1
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    1Exhortation to Obedience and Life The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 19:19
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    19When the sound of the horn grew louder and louder, Moses was speaking and God was answering him with a voice.

  • Exod 19:12
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    12You must set boundaries for the people all around, saying,‘Take heed to yourselves not to go up on the mountain nor touch its edge. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death!

  • Num 25:10
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    10The Aftermath The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 14:2
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    2And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them,“If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!

  • Lev 20:1
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    1Prohibitions against Illegitimate Family Worship The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 20:1
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    1The Decalogue God spoke all these words:

  • Num 16:44
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    44The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 20:7
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    7Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Acts 7:40
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    40saying to Aaron,‘Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt– we do not know what has happened to him!’

  • Lev 24:13
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    13Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 33:20
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    20But he added,“You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.”

  • Num 27:15
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    15Then Moses spoke to the LORD:

  • Num 4:21
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    21The Service of the Gershonites Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 16:20
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    20The Judgment on the Rebels The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Num 12:2
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    2They said,“Has the LORD spoken only through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?” And the LORD heard it.

  • Exod 32:23
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    23They said to me,‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’

  • Num 12:8
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    8With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

  • Lev 17:1
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    1The Slaughter of Animals The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 14:13
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    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–