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."

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.

Let not

But he added, "You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live."

So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining, "Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived."

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and 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.

Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?

The Lord spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.