27Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-33)Here, I. Moses reminds them of the agreement of both the parties that were now treating, in the mediation of Moses. 1. Here is the consternation that the people were put into by that extreme terror with which the law was given. They owned that they could not bear it any more: “ This great fire will consume us ; this dreadful voice will be fatal to us; we shall certainly die if we hear it any more,…
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