And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
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Gill's Exposition
And the people stood afar off,.... Still kept their distance in their camp and tents; or the heads and elders of the people having had this conversation with Moses, returned to their tents as they…
Compare Deu 5:22-31. Aaron Exo 19:24 on this occasion accompanied Moses in drawing near to the thick darkness. Exo 20:22 to Exo 23:33 is a series of laws which we may identify with what was written by…
I. The extraordinary terror with which the law was given. Never was any thing delivered with such awful pomp; every word was accented, and every sentence paused, with thunder and lightning, much…
Cambridge Bible
Speak thou (emph.), … and we will hear i.e. it is implied, listen and obey (see Deu 5:27 end).
lest we die cf. Deu 5:25 f.
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