Exodus 20:19
“And they saide vnto Moses, Speake thou with vs, and wee will heare: But let not God speake with vs, lest we die.”
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Exodus 20:19 Context
17Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house, thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife, nor his man seruant, nor his maid seruant, nor his oxe, nor his asse, nor any thing that is thy neighbours. 18¶ And all the people saw the thundrings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountaine smoking: and when the people saw it, they remooued, and stood a farre off. 19And they saide vnto Moses, Speake thou with vs, and wee will heare: But let not God speake with vs, lest we die. 20And Moses said vnto the people, Feare not: for God is come to prooue you, and that his feare may bee before your faces, that ye sinne not. 21And the people stood afarre off, and Moses drew neere vnto the thicke darkenes, where God was.
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And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
- King James Version
Then they said to Moses, "Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die."
- New American Standard Version (1995)