Deuteronomy 5:28

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26 ^aFor who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

27 You go near and hear all that the Lord our God may say, and ^atell us all that the Lord our God says to you, and we will hear and do it.’

28 “Then the Lord heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and the Lord said to me: ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. ^aThey are right in all that they have spoken.

29 ^aOh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and ^balways keep all My commandments, ^cthat it might be well with them and with their children forever!

30 Go and say to them, “Return to your tents.”

31 But as for you, stand here by Me, ^aand I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe them in the land which I am giving them to possess.’

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Deuteronomy 5:23-33

These verses contain a much fuller narrative of the events briefly described in Exodus 20:18-21. Here it is important to call attention to the fact that it was on the entreaties of the people that Moses had taken on him to be the channel of communication between God and them. God approved Deuteronomy 5:28 the request of the people, because it showed a feeling of their own unworthiness to enter into direct communion with God. The terrors of Sinai had done their work; they had awakened the consciousness of sin.

Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Deuteronomy 5:28:

Exodus 20:18-21
Deuteronomy 5:23-33

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