Deuteronomy 5:22-33 - The People's Response
22 These words the LORD spake unto all your multitude in the mount out of the fire, cloud and darkness, with a loud voice, and added no more thereto, and wrote them in two tables of stone and delivered them unto me. 23 But as soon as ye heard the voice out of the darkness and saw the hill burn with fire, ye came unto me all the heads of your tribes and your elders: 24 and ye said, 'Behold, the LORD our God hath showed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the fire, and we have seen this day that God may talk with a man and he yet live. 25 And now wherefore should we die that this great fire should consume us: If we should hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, we should die. 26 For what is any flesh that he should hear the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire as we have done and should yet live: 27 Go thou and hear all that the LORD our God sayeth, and tell thou unto us all that the LORD our God sayeth unto thee, and we will hear it and do it.'
28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words when ye spake unto me, and he said unto me, 'I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoke unto thee, they have well said all that they have said. 29 Oh that they had such a heart with them to fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might go well with them and with their children forever. 30 Go and say unto them: get you into your tents again. 31 But stand thou here before me and I will tell thee all the commandments, ordinances and laws which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.'
32 Take heed therefore that ye do as the LORD your God hath commanded you, and turn not aside: either to the righthand or to the left: 33 but walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live and that it may go well with you and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.